Special Message
01/07/1861
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Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the pu...
In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...