Special Message
12/17/1844
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The negotiation failed, however, in this particular, out of no disinclination to abide by the terms of the treaty on the...
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...
I utterly repudiate the idea, in terms as emphatic as I can employ, that those laws are not to be enforced or those guar...
Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to av...