no slave escaping into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia from any other State shall be delivered up or i...
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who sh...
it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pe...
the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States...
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Ordered, That the general-in-chief, Major-General Halleck, immediately commence, and proceed with all possible despatch;...
By direction of the President, all the clerks and employees of the civil Departments and all the employees on the public...
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
The draft for 300,000 militia called for by the President will be made on Wednesday, the 3d day of September, between th...
If the old regiments should not be filled up by volunteers before the 1st day of September, a special draft will be orde...
No citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country.
Any person liable to draft who shall absent himself from his county or State before such draft is made will be arrested.
The writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended in respect to all persons so arrested and detained.
All marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States are directed to arrest and detain any person o...
The only thing I think of just now not likely to be better said by some one else is a matter in which we have heard some...
I say here, so far as I know, the Secretary of War has withheld no one thing at any time in my power to give him.
I know General McClellan wishes to be successful, and I know he does not wish it any more than the Secretary of War for ...
