Special Message
12/29/1842
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I have to perform the melancholy duty of announcing to the two Houses of Congress the death of the Hon. Abel P. Upshur, ...
The loss which the Government and the country have sustained by this deplorable event is heightened by the death at the ...
The urgent demands of the service for the Gulf of Mexico and the substitution of iron for wood in the construction of sh...
I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces o...