01/07/1861
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"Under its shadow American citizens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun."
"The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inherit so rich a legacy."
"In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit the objectionable second article and also the few words of the twenty-eighth arti..."
"I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of the Republic of Costa ..."