I lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded at Le Roy, Kans., on the 29th day of ...
This recommendation is specially made in order to comply with the requirements of the ninth section of the aforesaid act
For these, and especially for the improved condition of our national affairs, our renewed and profoundest gratitude to G...
I have thought it proper, subject to the approval of the Senate, to concur with the interested commercial powers in an a...
It is especially gratifying that our prize courts, by the impartiality of their adjudications, have commanded the respec...
the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of...
Congress, on my recommendation, passed a resolution, approved 7th February, 1863, tendering its thanks to Commander D. D...
I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is ...
shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment;
a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slave...
so far as it relates to State governments, has no reference to States wherein loyal State governments have all the while...
I do therefore, in conformity to the seventh section of the act approved 16th July, 1862, nominate Commander D. D. Porte...
I most cordially recommend that Captain John Rodgers, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks from Congress for the...
To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power, but would also be a cruel and an astounding breach...
It is believed that so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned that inhuman and odious traffic has bee...
Questions of great intricacy and importance have arisen out of the blockade and other belligerent operations between the...
I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship and render spe...
You may fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people al...
