Objects interesting to the United States requiring that the Senate should be in session on Tuesday, the 4th of March next, to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive, your attendance in the Senate Chamber, in this city, on that day at 10 o'clock in the forenoon is accordingly requested.
Proclamation—Convening an Extra Session of the United States Senate
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I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of the nature of that which existed in Rhode Island on which side is the majority of the people or as to the extent of the rights of a mere numerical majority.
The responsibility of deciding this question is now devolved upon you.
I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general good.
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