For the patriotic act in making this magnificent and valuable present to the country, I recommend that some suitable acknowledgment be made.
By fair construction persons within these sections are not to be punished without regular trials in duly constituted courts.
For the reasons stated, I return the bill to the House, in which it originated.
There is much in the bill to which I perceive no objection.
I perceive no objection to Congress deciding in advance that they shall be free.
To the tenth section I make no objection.
I am ready to say now, I think it is proper for our military commanders to employ as laborers as many persons of African descent as can be u...
That we may not touch property lying within our reach because we can not give personal notice to an owner who is absent endeavoring to destr...
Please inform the Senate that I shall be obliged if they will postpone the adjournment at least one day beyond the time which I understand t...
Herewith is a draft of a bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the passage of which substantially as pre...
Let the States which are in rebellion see definitely and certainly that in no event will the States you represent ever join their proposed c...
I intend no reproach or complaint when I assure you that, in my opinion, if you all had voted for the resolution in the gradual-emancipation...
Break that lever before their faces, and they can shake you no more forever.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views and boldest action to bring a speedy relief.
To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your own names therewi...
How much better for you and for your people to take the step which at once shortens the war and secures substantial compensation for that wh...
I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually.
The public safety does require that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Misso...
