In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, requesting a copy of certain letters of Horatio J. Perry, late secretary to the legation of the United States at Madrid, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with the documents which accompanied it.
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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 the objectionable second article and also the few words of the twenty-eighth article which had been stricken out by the Senate.
I confess I hail this movement on the part of Virginia with great satisfaction.
My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.
In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?
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