Special Message
08/23/1842
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With equal, if not greater, propriety might the United States demand of other governments to surrender their numerous an...
Texas had entered into the treaty of annexation upon the invitation of the Executive, and when for that act she was thre...
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...
I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general...