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On the recordJune 28, 1868
I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch from the United States consul at Elsinore, and of an instruction from the Secretary of State to the United States minister at Copenhagen, relative to an alleged practice of the Danish authorities to banish convicts to this country.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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