Special Message
01/07/1861
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It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...
In my former protest, therefore, I truly and emphatically declared that it was made for no reason personal to myself, bu...