I am not aware that a dollar of the public funds thus confided without authority of law to unofficial persons was either lost or wasted, alt...
By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from...
To the House of Representatives: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the House of Representative...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, requesting information in regard to the indemnity obt...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, requesting information in regard to arrests in the State of Kentucky, I trans...
Neither General Hunter nor any other commander or person has been authorized by the Government of the United States to make proclamations de...
whether it be competent for me, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether a...
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics.
For your kind expressions I am extremely grateful, but on the other hand I assure you that the nation is more indebted to you, and such as y...
It has not been customary heretofore, nor will it be hereafter, for me to say something to every regiment passing in review.
The thanks of the nation will follow you, and may God's blessing rest upon you now and forever.
I bid you farewell.
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 thanks of Congress.
Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more pregnant with happy influe...
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority in me vested by the fifth sec...
He was arrested and imprisoned under my general authority, and upon evidence which, whether he be guilty, or innocent, required, as appears ...
In accordance with the suggestion of the Secretary of the Treasury contained in the accompanying letter, I have the honor to transmit the in...
