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On the recordApril 12, 1868
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of February, last, calling for the correspondence upon the subject of the murder by the inhabitants of the island of Formosa of the ship's company of the American bark Rover
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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