Special Message
01/07/1861
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I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
The lawfulness of the practice rests upon the exigencies of the public service; which require that the movements of the ...
I possess no dispensing power.
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be p...