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On the recordJune 21, 1860
By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of the instructions given by the Secretary of State to our minister in Mexico relative to the Tehuantepec route?
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James Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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