To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your own names therewi...
How much better for you and for your people to take the step which at once shortens the war and secures substantial compensation for that wh...
I intend no reproach or complaint when I assure you that, in my opinion, if you all had voted for the resolution in the gradual-emancipation...
I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually.
Break that lever before their faces, and they can shake you no more forever.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views and boldest action to bring a speedy relief.
The public safety does require that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Misso...
I recommend that the thanks of Congress be given to the following officers of the United States Navy
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty negotiated at the Kickapoo Age...
The said line from Rolla to and across Little Piney be first completed, and as soon as possible.
Ordered, That Major-General Henry W. Halleck be assigned to command the whole land forces of the United States as General in Chief, and that...
A letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 10th instant is also Transmitted, suggesting amendments to the treaty for the consider...
The portion of the said railroad line which reaches from Rolla to Lebanon be repaired, extended, and completed, so as to be made available f...
I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a postal convention with Costa Rica, concluded at San Jose on the 9...
Is the army secure in its present position?
Where is the enemy now?
What amount of force have you now?
If you desired could you remove the army safely?
