Special Message
01/07/1861
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The resistance to rightful authority and the persevering attempts to establish a revolutionary government under the Topeka constitution whic...
The just equality of all the States has thus been vindicated and a fruitful source of dangerous dissension among them has been removed.
The principle has been recognized in some form or other by an almost unanimous vote of both Houses of Congress that a Territory has a right ...
will be stopped and compelled to return by the same conveyance that took them to the country.