First Annual Message
12/02/1861
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The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration.
These three thousand five hundred and two thousand five hundred make precisely six thousand, which the supposed case req...
It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...
With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...