Resolved that the President be requested to inform this House whether any official
notice has been taken by this government or its minister in England, by correspondence
or otherwise, of the threatening and offensive terms in which the British Secretary
for Foreign Affairs is credibly reported to have spoken in his place of ^in^ the Commons House of Parliament lately, of what he treated as the want of public
faith in the United States punishable by Great Britain
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January 31 1848
Mr C J Ingersoll
Calling on the President of the U.S. for information respecting the offensive language used by the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons.
Mr C J Ingersoll
Calling on the President of the U.S. for information respecting the offensive language used by the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons.
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Laid upon the Table one day under the rule
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laid over one day
laid over one day
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 362: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB,