I am not aware that a dollar of the public funds thus confided without authority of law to unofficial persons was either...
It is due to Mr. Cameron to say that although he fully approved the proceedings they were not moved nor suggested by him...
By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in th...
To the House of Representatives: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Hou...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, requesting information in regard ...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, requesting information in regard to arrests in the State ...
Neither General Hunter nor any other commander or person has been authorized by the Government of the United States to m...
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics.
whether it be competent for me, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States...
It has not been customary heretofore, nor will it be hereafter, for me to say something to every regiment passing in rev...
The thanks of the nation will follow you, and may God's blessing rest upon you now and forever.
I bid you farewell.
For your kind expressions I am extremely grateful, but on the other hand I assure you that the nation is more indebted t...
I hope that upon your return to your homes you will find your friends and loved ones well and happy.
For their services and gallantry on those occasions I cordially recommend that they should by name receive a vote of tha...
Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more pregna...
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority in me ves...
I deem it incompatible with the public interest, as also, perhaps, unjust to General Stone, to make a more particular st...
