Special Message
02/05/1837
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such portions as have not heretofore been communicated of the instructions given to our ministers in France on the subject of claims for spo...
It therefore becomes my duty to bring the subject to the serious consideration of Congress.
It is the acknowledged attribute of free institutions that under them the empire of reason and law is substituted for the power of the sword...
I have determined to issue my proclamation of the 10th of December last.