Special Message
01/10/1859
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This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the pub...
I possess no dispensing power.
The charges made against me in vague and general terms were of such a false and atrocious character that I did not enter...
The resolution of the House, so far as it is accusatory of the President, is confined to an inquiry whether he had used ...