Protest Message
06/21/1860
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It affords me great satisfaction to perform this duty.
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, requesting a copy of correspondence between the Dep...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...