Special Message
12/11/1867
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I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty made on the 2d day of March, 1868, by ...
I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which embrace all the papers that have been submitted to me relating ...
The orders issued by me upon this subject are in accordance with long-established usage and hitherto unquestioned author...
I have been unable to find in the Constitution of the United States any warrant for the exercise of the authority thus c...