Special Message
02/07/1861
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The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character o...
It is evident that Congress intended nothing more by this clause than to express a decided opinion that Captain Meigs sh...
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...