Special Message
03/20/1860
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the country has been eminently prosperous in all its material interests.
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
My opinion remains unchanged that justice as well as sound policy requires us still to seek a peaceful solution of the q...
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...