So long as I am President, it shall be carried on for the sole purpose of restoring the Union.
The slightest knowledge of arithmetic will prove to any man that the rebel armies cannot be destroyed by Democratic stra...
Let my enemies prove to the country that the destruction of slavery is not necessary to a restoration of the Union.
Freedom has given us one hundred and fifty thousand men, raised on Southern soil.
Volunteers will be accepted under this call for one, two, or three years, as they may elect, and will be entitled to the...
And I hereby proclaim, order, and direct that immediately after the 5th day of September, 1864, being fifty days from th...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my call for 500,000 volunteers for the military servic...
To whom it may concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and t...
I do hereby further invite and request the heads of the Executive Departments of this Government, together with all legi...
I do hereby appoint the first Thursday of August next to be observed by the people of the United States as a day of nati...
the public safety especially requires that the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, so proclaimed i...
I do hereby require and command as well all military officers as all civil officers and authorities existing or found wi...
I do therefore hereby require of the military officers in the said State that the privileges of the writ of habeas corpu...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 6th ultimo, requesting information upon the subject of the African slav...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 24th instant, requesting information in regard to the alleged enlistmen...
While the resolution in regard to the supplanting of republican government upon the Western Continent is fully concurred...
I am especially gratified that the soldier and seaman were not forgotten by the convention, as they forever must and wil...
The nomination is gratefully accepted, as the resolutions of the convention, called the platform, are heartily approved.
