Special Message
02/20/1861
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My prayer to God is that He would preserve the Constitution and the Union throughout all generations.
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...
I return with my objections to the House, in which it originated.
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.