An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
The Senate of the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress
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Discussion of Robert Wilson's claim; President Lincoln informed that a quorum of the Senate has assembled; notice of President Lincoln's address to Congress.
Resolved that at 1 o'clock, p.m., to-morrow, the Senate will proceed to the election of a Chaplain for the Thirty-Eighth Congress.