First Annual Message
12/02/1861
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Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
The expediency of any legislation upon the subject is submitted for your consideration.
Complaint is made to me, by Vermont, that the assignment of her quota for the draft on the pending call is intrinsically...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, decl...