I have just been saying, and will repeat it, that the hardest of all speeches I have to answer is a serenade.
What we want, still more than Baltimore conventions or presidential elections, is success under Gen. Grant.
In the joint names of Liberty and Union, let us labor to give it legal form and practical effect.
I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is o...
I will say now, however, I approve the declaration in favor of so amending the Constitution as to prohibit slavery throu...
I know no reason to doubt that I shall accept the nomination tendered; and yet perhaps I should not declare definitely b...
I have the honor to submit, for the consideration of Congress a letter and inclosure from the Secretary of War, with my ...
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 28th instant, a repor...
In reply to a resolution of the Senate of the 25th instant, relating to Mexican affairs, I transmit a partial report fro...
I also recommend that First Assistant Engineer James M. Hobby be advanced thirty numbers in his grade for distinguished ...
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while th...
To the House of Representatives:I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, in answer to the resolution of t...
God alone can claim it.
I therefore invite the early attention of Congress to the subject.
The Government bounties as now paid continue until April 1, 1864, at which time the additional bounties cease.
I transmit to Congress a copy of a treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the final settlement of the cl...
It is desirable that the legislation necessary to give effect to the convention on the part of the United States should ...
In relieving Major-General Halleek from duty as General in Chief, the President desires to express his approbation and t...
