A person forced into the rebel service by conscription or under a paramount authority which he could not safely disobey, and who would not have entered such service if left to the free exercise of his own will, can not be held to be disqualified from voting.
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I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Interior, made in reply to the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 13th instant.
I transmit to the Senate, in further answer to their resolution of the 14th of April last, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.
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