Special Message
02/18/1868
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I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.
Strongly impressed with the truth of these views, I feel called upon by an imperative sense of duty to revive substantially the recommendati...
The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.