Neither General Hunter nor any other commander or person has been authorized by the Government of the United States to make proclamations de...
whether it be competent for me, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether a...
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics.
For your kind expressions I am extremely grateful, but on the other hand I assure you that the nation is more indebted to you, and such as y...
It has not been customary heretofore, nor will it be hereafter, for me to say something to every regiment passing in review.
The thanks of the nation will follow you, and may God's blessing rest upon you now and forever.
I bid you farewell.
I hope that upon your return to your homes you will find your friends and loved ones well and happy.
For their services and gallantry on those occasions I cordially recommend that they should by name receive a vote of thanks of Congress.
Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more pregnant with happy influe...
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority in me vested by the fifth sec...
He will be allowed a trial without any unnecessary delay, the charges and specifications will be furnished him in due season, and every faci...
He has not been tried because in the state of military operations at the time of his arrest and since the officers to constitute a court-mar...
I deem it incompatible with the public interest, as also, perhaps, unjust to General Stone, to make a more particular statement of the evide...
In accordance with the suggestion of the Secretary of the Treasury contained in the accompanying letter, I have the honor to transmit the in...
He was arrested and imprisoned under my general authority, and upon evidence which, whether he be guilty, or innocent, required, as appears ...
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith, for the constitutional action of the Senate, a treaty negotiated on the 13th of Mar...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of February last, requesting information in regard to insurgen...
