Special Message
01/29/1861
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In view of this fact it was deemed preferable to instruct our new minister to negotiate a new treaty which should omit t...
The Union is a sacred trust left by our Revolutionary fathers to their descendants, and never did any other people inher...
In all its various bearings, therefore, I commend the question to Congress as the only human tribunal under Providence p...
My province is to execute and not to make the laws.