10/18/1864
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"This renders it desirable that the Senate should decide in regard to it as soon as this may be convenient"
"I transmit a copy of a communication* of the 21st of December last addressed to the Secretary of State by the governor of the Territory of Nevada."
"I commend to the particular attention of Congress those parts of it which show that further legislation is desirable for the public welfare in that quarter."
"Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more pregnant with happy influence as an example, I cordially recommend that Captain Samuel..."