To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty negotiated at the Kickapoo Age...
I recommend that the thanks of Congress be given to the following officers of the United States Navy
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...
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...
What amount of force have you now?
Is the army secure in its present position?
If you desired could you remove the army safely?
Where is the enemy now?
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...
What is likely to be your condition as to health in this camp?
Let us have faith that right makes might.
Herewith is the draft of the bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the passage of which, substantially a...
My reason for so doing is that I have approved an act of the same title passed by Congress after the passage of the one first mentioned for ...
I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclu...
I most cordially recommend that Captain Andrew H. Foote, of the United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his eminent ser...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Ge...
I have decided to call into the service an additional force of 300,000 men.
I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infantry.
