Special Message
03/17/1844
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I utterly repudiate the idea, in terms as emphatic as I can employ, that those laws are not to be enforced or those guar...
In compliance with your resolution of the 26th ultimo, I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy.
I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of t...
The great question is—not as to the manner in which it shall be done, but whether it shall be accomplished or not.