The Postmaster-General has offered the California mails to the several companies and shipowners engaged in the trade with the Pacific via the Isthmus, but they have all declined carrying them for the postages.
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Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in Charleston Harbor, until an absolute necessity for doing so should make itself apparent.
Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon the island of Aves.
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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