I feel that I should not perform my duty by a simple announcement of my approval of the joint resolution, without expressing my earnest desi...
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.
My approval is given in order that every possible facility may be afforded for the prompt discharge of all arrears of pay due to our soldier...
I have not received any representative from the revolutionary Government, which has not yet been recognized, because such a proceeding would...
No definitive measure or proceeding has resulted from these communications.
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 recognize the revolutionary ...
I transmit for the consideration of Congress, and with a view to the adoption of such measures in relation to the subject of it as may be de...
It is now further ordered by the President,That the Attorney-General be charged with superintendence and direction of all proceedings to be ...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d ultimo, in relation to the alleged interference of our minister...
As many persons who come well recommended for loyalty and service to the Union cause, and who are refugees from rebel oppression in the Stat...
I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for the mutual adjustment of claims between the United...
I submit to Congress the expediency of extending to other Departments of the Government the authority conferred on the President by the eigh...
And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to...
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense;
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considera...
all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United S...
