Veto Message
01/24/1861
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I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...
In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?
This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the pub...
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...