Special Message
01/29/1861
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However strong may be my desire to enter into such an agreement, I am convinced that I do not possess the power.
I deemed it a duty to transmit to Congress with my message of the 8th of January the correspondence which occurred in De...
It has rendered us prosperous in peace and triumphant in war.
Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon t...