To whom it may concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and t...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my call for 500,000 volunteers for the military servic...
And I hereby proclaim, order, and direct that immediately after the 5th day of September, 1864, being fifty days from th...
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...
I do therefore hereby require of the military officers in the said State that the privileges of the writ of habeas corpu...
I do hereby require and command as well all military officers as all civil officers and authorities existing or found wi...
the public safety especially requires that the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, so proclaimed i...
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...
The nomination is gratefully accepted, as the resolutions of the convention, called the platform, are heartily approved.
I am especially gratified that the soldier and seaman were not forgotten by the convention, as they forever must and wil...
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty made and concluded at the city of Wash...
I herewith communicate to the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, the articles of agreement and convention ma...
I transmit a copy of a dispatch of the 10th instant to the Secretary of State from the acting consul of the United State...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th of March, 1864, I transmit herewith a report from the Secreta...
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith, for consideration with a view to ratification, a convention bet...
