Special Message
01/14/1861
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I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be pr...
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be p...
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning ...