12/02/1862
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"I solicit your authority to furnish to the Republic a gunboat at moderate cost, to be reimbursed to the United States by installments."
"If Congress should think that proceedings in such cases lack the authority of law, or ought to be further regulated by it, I recommend that provision be made for effectually preventing foreign slave t..."
"We all know where he went in at, but I can't tell where he will come out at."
"I will now close by proposing three cheers for Gen. Sherman and the army."