First Annual Message
12/02/1861
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of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice
He wished the reunion of all the States perfected and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future;
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.