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Special Message

July 14, 1841

To the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives..

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st ultimo, I have the honor to submit the accompanying communication++ from the Secretary of State.

JOHN TYLER.

++Transmitting correspondence with Great Britain relative to the seizure of American vessels by British armed cruisers under the pretense that they were engaged in the slave trade; also correspondence with N. P. Trist, United States consul at Habana, upon the subject of the slave trade, etc.

John Tyler, Special Message Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200811

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