Special Message
02/25/1861
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Nor is it known or believed that there are any claims against the Government of Venezuela having any connection with tha...
My opinion remains unchanged that justice as well as sound policy requires us still to seek a peaceful solution of the q...
I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...
no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...