Special Message
12/17/1844
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With equal, if not greater, propriety might the United States demand of other governments to surrender their numerous an...
peace is the true policy of nations
I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general...
Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to av...