Veto Message
01/06/1859
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By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of ...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
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