Now, therefore, to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained and those concerned in violating them brought to immediate and condign punishment, I have issued this my proclamation, calling on all well-disposed citizens to rally to the support of the laws of their country, and requiring and commanding all officers, civil and military, and all other persons, civil or military, who shall be found within the vicinity of this outrage, to be aiding and assisting by all means in their power in quelling this and other such combinations and assisting the marshal and his deputies in recapturing the above-mentioned prisoner; and I do especially direct that prosecutions be commenced against all persons who shall have made themselves aiders or abettors in or to this flagitious offense; and I do further command that the district attorney of the United States and all other persons concerned in the administration or execution of the laws of the United States cause the foregoing offenders and all such as aided, abetted, or assisted them or shall be found to have harbored or concealed such fugitive contrary to law to be immediately arrested and proceeded with according to law.

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States this 18th day of February, 1851.

[SEAL.]

MILLARD FILLMORE.

DANL.  WEBSTER,
  Secretary of State.

[From Executive Journal of the Senate, Vol.  VIII, p. 299.]

WASHINGTON, March 3, 1851.

To the Senators of the United States, respectively.

SIR:  Whereas divers and weighty causes connected with executive business necessary to be transacted create an extraordinary occasion requiring that the Senate be convened, you are therefore requested, as a member of that body, to attend a meeting thereof to be holden at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March instant.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

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WASHINGTON, March 4, 1851.

To the Senate of the United States: 

Sundry nominations having been made during the last session of the Senate which were not finally disposed of, I hereby nominate anew each person so nominated at the last session whose nomination was not finally acted on before the termination of that session to the same office for which he was nominated as aforesaid.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

WASHINGTON, March 10, 1851.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, with the accompanying documents,[12] in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

[Footnote 12:  Correspondence with the United States minister at Constantinople respecting the liberation of Kossuth and his companions.]

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