Special Message
02/20/1861
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I feel it my duty to communicate to you that it has been found impracticable to conclude a contract for the transportati...
I have long foreseen and often forewarned my countrymen of the now impending danger.
The power to carry on the business of the Government by means of a provisional appointment when a vacancy occurs is expr...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...