Special Message
02/10/1867
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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
By direction of the President, Brigadier and Brevet Major-General Irvin McDowell is assigned to the command of the Department of the East.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State of the 2d instant, together with accompanying papers.
I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch from the United States consul at Elsinore, and of an instruction from the Secretary of State to ...