Special Message
01/29/1861
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I therefore recommend the reconsideration of the subject.
It is manifest that if the power which this law gives had been withheld the public interest would frequently suffer very...
It will be for Congress to consider whether the precedent established by this bill will not in effect annul all restrict...
I confess I hail this movement on the part of Virginia with great satisfaction.