Special Message
03/02/1859
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The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...
The power to carry on the business of the Government by means of a provisional appointment when a vacancy occurs is expr...