Special Message
01/29/1861
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Before accepting this proposition I have thought it right to take the advice of the Senate.
After due deliberation, Congress, on the 2d of June, 1858, authorized the President 'to adopt such measures and use such...
The principle of the liability of Paraguay having been established by the highest political acts of the United States an...
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...