In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of June last, requesting a list of claims of citizens of the United States on foreign governments, 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.
In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?
It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be practicable.
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be preserved by all constitutional means.
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