Special Message
01/27/1861
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Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon t...
In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...
I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be p...
He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seced...