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March 21, 1853
Franklin Pierce
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 18th of January last, calling for further correspondence touching the revolution in France of December, 1851, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
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