Veto Message
01/24/1861
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The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.