Special Message
01/27/1861
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The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character o...
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...
The power to carry on the business of the Government by means of a provisional appointment when a vacancy occurs is expr...
The lawfulness of the practice rests upon the exigencies of the public service; which require that the movements of the ...