Message to Congress on Affairs in Utah
06/09/1858
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It affords me great satisfaction to perform this duty.
Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...
I possess no dispensing power.