Special Message
12/19/1858
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It should not be forgotten that, in consequence of the diversion of a large part of the letter mail to the overland rout...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...