Special Message
01/27/1861
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My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character o...
If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive d...
The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.