Abraham Lincoln: Special Message

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Special Message
December 30, 1861

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To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I transmit to Congress a correspondence which has taken place between the Secretary of State and authorities of Great Britain and France on the subject of the recent removal of certain citizens* of the United States from the British mail steamer Trent by order of Captain Wilkes, in command of the United States war steamer San Jacinto .

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

*James M. Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to England and France, respectively, and two others.

Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=70104.

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