Special Message
12/22/1842
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I submit it to your mature consideration whether, in view of the important benefits arising from the treaty to the trade...
In view of the magnitude and importance of our national concerns, actual and prospective, in China, I submit to the cons...
The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view.
I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces o...