Context

Context of Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-fourth Congress. February 14, 1856. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed. February 18, 1856. -- Resolved, that there be printed for the use of the members of the House of Representatives twenty thousand copies of the President's message and accompanying documents. Part I.