Special Message
12/15/1859
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This bill will prove unequal and unjust in its operation, because from its nature it is confined to one class of our peo...
If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive d...
The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character o...
But I can not so read the words 'dispose of' as to make them embrace the idea of 'giving away'.