Special Message
12/19/1858
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In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be p...
It should not be forgotten that, in consequence of the diversion of a large part of the letter mail to the overland rout...
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...