First Inaugural Address
03/03/1861
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I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded at the Isabella Indian Reser...
Ordered, first. That Major-General William F. Smith and the Hon. Henry Stanbery be, and they are hereby, appointed speci...
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration.