Special Message
01/07/1861
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Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...