Special Message
12/28/1842
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I submit it to your mature consideration whether, in view of the important benefits arising from the treaty to the trade...
My fervent prayer is that it may never come.
I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, prepared in compliance with a resolution of the House of Represent...
I regard the question involved in these proceedings as one of vast magnitude.