shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment;
Congress, on my recommendation, passed a resolution, approved 7th February, 1863, tendering its thanks to Commander D. D...
It is especially gratifying that our prize courts, by the impartiality of their adjudications, have commanded the respec...
a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slave...
It is believed that so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned that inhuman and odious traffic has bee...
This recommendation is specially made in order to comply with the requirements of the ninth section of the aforesaid act
Questions of great intricacy and importance have arisen out of the blockade and other belligerent operations between the...
the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of...
I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is ...
so far as it relates to State governments, has no reference to States wherein loyal State governments have all the while...
I have thought it proper, subject to the approval of the Senate, to concur with the interested commercial powers in an a...
For these, and especially for the improved condition of our national affairs, our renewed and profoundest gratitude to G...
I most cordially recommend that Captain John Rodgers, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks from Congress for the...
I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship and render spe...
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that...
The question is not whether we will be free, but whether we will be free to choose.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
