Veto Message
06/21/1860
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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...
Under its shadow American citizens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun.
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.
He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seced...