Special Message
01/08/1845
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I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to th...
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...
The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.
I feel it to be my duty to communicate, for your consideration, the rejected treaty.