Remarks in Buffalo, New York
09/02/1866
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In further answer of the resolution of the Senate of the 13th of January last, relative to the appointment of the Hon. A...
It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.
I can not give my assent to a measure which proposes to deprive any person 'restrained of his or her liberty in violatio...
The extraordinary character of your letter of the 3d instant would seem to preclude any reply on my part.