All this legislation proceeds upon the contrary assumption that the people of each of these States shall have no constitution except such as may be arbitrarily dictated by Congress and formed under the restraint of military rule.
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I transmit to the Senate, in further answer to their resolution of the 14th of April last, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Interior, made in reply to the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 13th instant.
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I have been unable to find in the Constitution of the United States any warrant for the exercise of the authority thus claimed by Congress.
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