Special Message
06/26/1834
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I have the honor to be, madam, your most obedient servant, ANDREW JACKSON
I transmit to the Senate a report of the Secretary of the Navy, complying with their resolution of the 24th of May, 1836...
The acknowledgment of a new state as independent and entitled to a place in the family of nations is at all times an act...
to render the punishment hereafter more severe for the wanton destruction of the public property