Special Message
12/22/1844
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The responsibility of deciding this question is now devolved upon you.
The great question is—not as to the manner in which it shall be done, but whether it shall be accomplished or not.
No reason is perceived for the discrimination recognized by the existing Law, and none why the provisions of the acts of...
I regard the question involved in these proceedings as one of vast magnitude.