Special Message
01/27/1861
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The practice of making such appointments, whether in a vacation or during the session of Congress, has been constantly f...
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...
Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence.
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...