Veto Message
03/01/1867
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The employers desire in their workmen spirit and alacrity, and these can be permanently secured in no other way.
The Union shall be perpetual
There must be confidence between the Government and the States, and while the Government confides in the people the people must have faith i...
The usurpation of such power will be treated as a grave military offense.