Special Message
02/04/1861
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My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very...
The national flag has floated in glory over every sea.
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...