Message to Congress
07/16/1862
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He wished the reunion of all the States perfected and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future;
My reason for so doing is that I am informed that this joint resolution was prepared during the last moments of the last...
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.
With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...