Special Message
12/17/1844
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I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general...
The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.
My fervent prayer is that it may never come.
I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to th...