Special Message
02/04/1861
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In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...
I have no other solicitude upon the subject.