Special Message
02/17/1859
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If this were not the case, then by the purchase of a new territory from a foreign government out of the public Treasury ...
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the pu...
The true meaning of these words is clearly stated by Chief Justice Taney in delivering the opinion of the court (19 Howa...