Message to Congress
07/16/1862
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us striv...
Say to the gentlemen I will meet them personally at Fortress Monroe as soon as I can get there.
In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 6th instant, requesting the return of a certain joint resolution, I transmit...
The expediency of any legislation upon the subject is submitted for your consideration.