Message from the President of the United States, Communicating … Certain Information Respecting the Pay and Emoluments of Lieutenant General Winfield Scott

by Franklin Pierce

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Washington, DC: United States Senate, 1857. First edition, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 34, 34th Congress, 3d Session. 8vo. 254 pp. Franklin Pierce and his Secretary of War Jefferson Davis sought to show that Scott, defeated as the Whig candidate for the presidency by the Democratic Party nominee Pierce in 1852, was improperly seeking reimbursements from the government for back pay and expenses incurred during his service in the Mexican War and afterwards; this document

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