1850 President Zachery Taylor Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin

Description: [ebay 163] 31st CONGRESS, 1st Session. [HO. OF REPS.] 60 Ex. Doc. No. 16. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING Copies of a correspondence with the lady of Sir John Franklin, relative to the expedition of Sir John Franklin. JANUARY 22, 1850. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I herewith submit to you copies of a correspondence with the lady of Sir John Franklin, relative to the well-known expedition under his com- mand to the arctic regions for the discovery of a northwest passage. On the receipt of her first letter, imploring the aid of the American govern- ment in a search for the missing ships, engaged in an enterprise which interested all civilized nations, 1 anxiously sought the means of affording that assistance, but was prevented from accomplishing the object I had in view in consequence of the want of vessels suitable to encounter the perils of a proper exploration, the lateness of the season, and the want of an appropriation by Congress to enable me to furnish and equip an effi- cient squadron for that object. All that I could do in compliance with a request which I was deeply anxious to gratify, was to cause the adver- tisements of reward promulged by the British government, and the best information I could obtain as to the means of finding the vessels under the command of Sir John Franklin, to be widely circulated among our whalers and seafaring men, whose spirit of enterprise might lead them to the inhospitable regions where that heroic officer and his brave followers, who periled their lives in the cause of science and for the benefit of the world, were supposed to be imprisoned among the icebergs, or wrecked upon a desert shore, Congress being now in session, the propriety and expediency of an appropriation for fitting out an expedition to proceed in search of the missing ships, with their officers and crews, is respectfully submitted to your consideration. WASHINGTON, January 4, 1850. Z. TAYLOR

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