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WASHINGTON, January 16, 1833. To the Senate:
In conformity with a resolution of the Senate of the 31st December last, I
herewith transmit copies of the instructions under which the late treaty of indemnity with Naples was negotiated, and of all
the correspondence relative thereto.
It will appear evident from a perusal of some of those documents that they
are written by the agents of the United States to their own Government with a freedom, as far as relates to the officers of
that of Naples, which was never intended for the public eye, and as they might, if printed, accidentally find their way abroad
and thereby embarrass our ministers in their future operations in foreign countries, I respectfully recommend that in the
printing, if deemed necessary, such a discrimination be made as to avoid that inconvenience, preferring this course to withholding
from the Senate any part of the correspondence.
ANDREW JACKSON.
Source: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Prepared under the direction of the
Joint Committee on printing, of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress of the United States.
New York : Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897; Yale Law School, The Avalon Project
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