Special Message
01/07/1861
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence.
Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon t...
The power to carry on the business of the Government by means of a provisional appointment when a vacancy occurs is expr...
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...