Special Message
01/07/1861
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I have no other solicitude upon the subject.
Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
I am convinced that it is ours by the treaty fairly and impartially construed.