I transmit herewith a communication from the War Department, containing all the information and correspondence in that Department on the subject of the 'mountain howitzer' taken by Lieutenant Fremont on the expedition to the Oregon Territory, as requested by the resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant.
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I feel it to be my duty to communicate, for your consideration, the rejected treaty.
I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to threaten the public peace.
I did not consider the irregularities into which the surveyor-general had fallen as of sufficient magnitude to induce his dismissal from office at the time that the papers reached me
I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general good.
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