Special Message
02/17/1867
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I can not give my assent to a measure which proposes to deprive any person 'restrained of his or her liberty in violatio...
I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which embrace all the papers that have been submitted to me relating ...
I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to a resolution of the 9th instant, the accompanying report from t...
It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.