I concur with the Attorney-General in the opinion that it would be incompatible with the public interest at this time to communicate the correspondence with the officers of the Government at Savannah or the instructions which they have received.
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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.
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.
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
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