It is desirable that the legislation necessary to give effect to the convention on the part of the United States should ...
The Government bounties as now paid continue until April 1, 1864, at which time the additional bounties cease.
In relieving Major-General Halleek from duty as General in Chief, the President desires to express his approbation and t...
Showing what portion of the appropriations for the colonization of persons of African descent has been expended and the ...
In obedience to the resolution of the Senate of the 28th of January last, I communicate herewith a report, with accompan...
Under the authority of an act of Congress to revive the grade of lieutenant-general in the United States Army, approved ...
Since then the company has represented to me that upon actual surveys made it has determined upon the precise point of d...
I have made the order of which a copy is herewith, and caused the same to be filed in the Department of the Interior.
I deem it proper to add that on the 17th day of November last an Executive order was made upon this subject and delivere...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do, upon the application of the said company designate and establish...
it is directed that the order aforesaid may be carried into effect
You must remember that some things are better left undone than done badly.
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
