Veto Message
06/21/1860
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Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
I am one of those who will never despair of the Republic.
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...