Special Message
02/20/1861
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Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the pu...
The power to carry on the business of the Government by means of a provisional appointment when a vacancy occurs is expr...
The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...