I am not aware that a dollar of the public funds thus confided without authority of law to unofficial persons was either lost or wasted, although apprehensions of such misdirection occurred to me as objections to those extraordinary proceedings, and were necessarily overruled.
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The Department buildings will be illuminated on the night of Washington's birthday, in honor of the recent triumphs of the Union.
I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.
He has gone in again at Savannah, and I propose three cheers for his coming out gloriously.
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