In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 2d of February, 1859, requesting information in regard to the compulsory service of citizens of the United States in the army of Prussia, I transmit an additional report from the Secretary of State and the document by which it is accompanied.
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He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seceding States not to deliver it on the day appointed.
I feel quite confident that Congress will bestow upon these resolutions the careful consideration to which they are eminently entitled.
I confess I hail this movement on the part of Virginia with great satisfaction.
Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.
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