Protest Message
06/21/1860
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It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...