it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the f...
all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give ...
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.
on the 1st day of January, A. D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the...
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; to organize an army...
By direction of the President, all the clerks and employees of the civil Departments and all the employees on the public buildings in Washin...
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
If the old regiments should not be filled up by volunteers before the 1st day of September, a special draft will be ordered for the deficien...
The draft for 300,000 militia called for by the President will be made on Wednesday, the 3d day of September, between the hours of 9 a. m. a...
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.
All marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States are directed to arrest and detain any person or persons about to d...
The writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended in respect to all persons so arrested and detained.
I know General McClellan wishes to be successful, and I know he does not wish it any more than the Secretary of War for him, and both of the...
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.
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 other persons blame...
I occupy a position that enables me to believe that these two gentlemen are not nearly so deep in the quarrel as some presuming to be their ...
