That Congress has power to regulate the currency of the country can hardly admit of doubt.
Such a currency can be furnished by banking associations, organized under a general act of Congress.
I think it my duty to express my sincere regret that it has been found necessary to authorize so large an additional iss...
My approval is given in order that every possible facility may be afforded for the prompt discharge of all arrears of pa...
In order to raise money by way of loans most easily and cheaply, it is clearly necessary to give every possible support ...
No definitive measure or proceeding has resulted from these communications.
I have not received any representative from the revolutionary Government, which has not yet been recognized, because suc...
The Secretary of State has submitted to me a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant.
The advices which have been received from him have not hitherto been sufficiently conclusive to determine me to recogniz...
I transmit for the consideration of Congress, and with a view to the adoption of such measures in relation to the subjec...
It is now further ordered by the President,That the Attorney-General be charged with superintendence and direction of al...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d ultimo, in relation to the alleged interfer...
As many persons who come well recommended for loyalty and service to the Union cause, and who are refugees from rebel op...
I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for the mutual adjustment of claim...
I submit to Congress the expediency of extending to other Departments of the Government the authority conferred on the P...
all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion ...
I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and hencefo...
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I ...
