Special Message
01/27/1861
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It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence.
I therefore recommend the reconsideration of the subject.