Special Message
01/12/1859
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To the House of Representatives: I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a communication from the Secretary ...
Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, requesting a copy of correspondence between the Dep...