Special Message
01/27/1861
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It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, requesting a copy of correspondence between the Dep...
It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be pr...
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...