Veto Message
08/08/1842
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I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces o...
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...
Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to av...
I must be permitted to disclaim entirely and unqualifiedly the right on the part of the Executive to make any real or su...