I herewith transmit to the Senate a digest of the statistics of manufactures according to the returns of the Seventh Census, prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with a provision in the first section of an act of Congress approved June 12, 1858.
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It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be practicable.
The practice of making such appointments, whether in a vacation or during the session of Congress, has been constantly followed during every Administration from the earliest period of the Government, and its perfect lawfulness has never to my knowledge been questioned or denied.
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.
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