Veto Message
06/21/1860
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My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.
And in the expressive and pointed language of Mr. Jefferson, when speaking of the tendency of the legislative branch of ...
The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...