05/28/1866
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"I would therefore recommend such an amendment of the Constitution as may remove all intermediate agency in the election of the President and Vice-President."
"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 the United States minister at Copenhagen, relative to an all..."