Proclamation
10/29/1858
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Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence.
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...
Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...