Special Message
12/15/1859
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Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.
He was, however, induced by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seced...
The practice of making such appointments, whether in a vacation or during the session of Congress, has been constantly f...
It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...