Special Message
01/07/1861
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the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests.
I feel it my duty to communicate to you that it has been found impracticable to conclude a contract for the transportati...
In the language of Mr. Madison, speaking on this very subject in the forty-eighth number of the Federalist: In a represe...
The Postmaster-General has offered the California mails to the several companies and shipowners engaged in the trade wit...