Special Message
12/19/1858
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In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th of April last, requesting information concerning ...
In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...