Special Message
01/10/1859
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The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.
It should not be forgotten that, in consequence of the diversion of a large part of the letter mail to the overland rout...
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...