Special Message
01/13/1868
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To the Senate of the United States:In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st of February last, in relation t...
For the purpose of regulating the citizenship of those persons who emigrate from the Confederation to this country and f...
I can not give my assent to a measure which proposes to deprive any person 'restrained of his or her liberty in violatio...
It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.