Proclamation
10/29/1858
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It would be a strange anomaly indeed to have created two funds--the one by taxation, confined to the execution of the en...
The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character o...
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...