The required foothold there was fortunately secured by our late treaty with the Emperor of Russia, and it now seems imperative that the more obvious necessities of the Atlantic coast should not be less carefully provided for.
Johnson discusses the successful acquisition of a strategic foothold on the Pacific coast through a treaty with Russia, stressing the need for similar attention to the Atlantic coast.
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I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
Feeling constrained to withhold my consent, I herewith return the resolution to the Senate, in which House it originated, with a brief statement of the reasons which have induced my action.
No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.
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