First Annual Message
12/02/1861
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It is expected, however, that no immigrant passenger coming in manner aforesaid will be obstructed, or any other persons...
My reason for so doing is that I am informed that this joint resolution was prepared during the last moments of the last...
In order to supply the aforesaid deficiency and to provide for casualties in the military and naval service of the Unite...
He could not but congratulate all present, himself, the country and the whole world upon this great moral victory.