First Annual Message
12/02/1861
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it...
Let nothing which is transpiring change, hinder, or delay your military movements or plans.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Allow the bearer, F. P. Blair, sr., to pass our lines, go South, and return.