Veto Message
08/08/1842
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Texas herself wills it; and the Executive of the United States, concurring with her, has seen no sufficient reason to av...
My fervent prayer is that it may never come.
The great question is—not as to the manner in which it shall be done, but whether it shall be accomplished or not.
I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces o...