Special Message
02/07/1861
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The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the pu...
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...