Letter to William H. Herndon
03/05/1864
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In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 15th ultimo requesting information concerning an arrangement limi...
With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...
In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have compl...
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