12/19/1858
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"I possess no dispensing power."
"It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war."
"Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in Charleston Harbor, until an absolute necessity for doing so should make itself ..."
"My province is to execute and not to make the laws."