And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and bles...
I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who...
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.
Ordered by the President of the United States, That Major-General Hooker be, and he is hereby, authorized to take milita...
the blockade of the said port of Alexandria shall so far cease and determine from and after this date
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and make known to all whom it may concern that th...
And I do hereby require all magistrates, attorneys, and other civil officers within the United States and all officers a...
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the pu...
Ordered, That the Executive order dated November 21, 1862, prohibiting the exportation from the United States of arms, a...
Ordered. That the Executive order of November 21, 1862, prohibiting the exportation of arms, ammunition, or munitions of...
I am against this.
The proclamation, as law, either is valid or is not valid.
I think the Constitution invests its commander-in-chief with the law of war in time of war.
You desire peace, and you blame me that we do not have it.
Peace does not appear so distant as it did.
I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service—the United States Constitution, ...
I do not believe any compromise embracing the maintenance of the Union is now possible.
I issued the proclamation on purpose to aid you in saving the Union.
