Special Message
02/10/1868
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I communicate, for the consideration of the Senate, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by a copy of a dis...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of February, last, calling for the correspondence upon the subject ...
It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.
I will only notice one more statement in your letter of the 3d instant—that the performance of the promises which it is ...