Special Message
04/04/1860
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In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Cap...
It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very...