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He, therefore, in his annual message of 3d December, 1860, and in his special message of 8th January, 1861, fully disclosed to Congress the nature of the emergency, and explained his in- ability to cope with it unless larger powers were conferred upon him, but those powers Congress 32 failed to grant. That significant want of action by Congress was not due to any careless oversight, nor to any Democratic sympathy with rebellion, but it was the deliberate expression of that defined policy of the... leaders of the Republican party which advisedly reserved, for the incoming administration, the adjust- ment of the pending national difficulties, and which carefully avoided any legislation, either in the direc- tion of conciliation or coercion, that might have a ten- dency to affect Mr. Lincoln's independence of action. That policy was, so far as it sought to postpone the consideration of terms of compromise until after Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, not only recommended by motives of party expediency, but also supported by higher considerations.
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