Special Message
01/27/1861
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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...
It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...
I return with my objections to the House, in which it originated.
I have no other solicitude upon the subject.