Special Message
02/24/1863
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Be pleased to signify this to the respective Houses of Congress.
Allow the bearer, F. P. Blair, sr., to pass our lines, go South, and return.
Complaint is made to me, by Vermont, that the assignment of her quota for the draft on the pending call is intrinsically...
It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...