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Yes, July 4, 1861. What's your point? You were the one seeming to claim that President Lincoln didn't call a special session at all.

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{Non-Sequitur] Yes, July 4, 1861. What's your point? You were the one seeming to claim that President Lincoln didn't call a special session at all.

What I said was, "When Abraham Lincoln was elected and inaugurated, he didn't have a Congress for the first six weeks. He did not, however, call an extra session of Congress."

In context, he did not call a special session of Congress during those first six weeks. There was a lot going on.