I utterly repudiate the idea, in terms as emphatic as I can employ, that those laws are not to be enforced or those guaranties complied with because the President may believe that the right of suffrage or any other great popular right is either too restricted or too broadly enlarged.
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In answer to your resolution of the 19th December last, I herewith transmit a letter from the Secretary of State and the accompanying documents.
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