First Annual Message
12/02/1861
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while I can not order as within requested, allow me to say that it is my wish for you to relieve the people from all bur...
The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...
Your having shown me Mr. Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am n...
By no other result can the six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and, at the same time deal justly and keep ...