Special Message
01/07/1861
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It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be pr...
I possess no dispensing power.
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...