I most cordially recommend that Captain Andrew H. Foote, of the United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his eminent services

I have decided to call into the service an additional force of 300,000 men.

I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infantry.

I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion.

I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State…

To accomplish the object stated we require without delay 150,000 men, including those recently called for by the Secretary of War.

Thus reenforced our gallant Army will be enabled to realize the hopes and expectations of the Government and the people.

Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclamation, I have deemed it best to address you in this form.

The forces under Major-Generals Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, including the troops now under Brigadier-General Sturgis at Washington, shall be consolidated and form one army, to be called the Army of Virginia.

The Army of Virginia shall operate in such manner as, while protecting western Virginia and the national capital from danger or insult, it shall in the speediest manner attack and overcome the rebel forces under Jackson and Ewell, threaten…

The command of the Army of Virginia is specially assigned to Major-General John Pope, as commanding general.

The accompanying treaty, made and concluded at the city of Washington on the 24th day of June, 1862.

When the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Virginia shall be in position to communicate and directly co-operate at or before Richmond, the chief command, while so operating together, shall be governed, as in like cases, by the Rules and…

I have, nevertheless, thought it just to our excellent minister in Mexico and respectful to the Government of that Republic to lay the treaties before the Senate.

Entertaining these objections to the bill, I feel myself constrained to withhold from it my approval and return it for the further consideration and action of Congress.

The currency of the District, should this act become a law will certainly and greatly deteriorate, to the serious injury of honest trade and honest labor.

I shall cheerfully receive and consider with the highest respect any further advice the Senate may think proper to give upon the subject.

During the existing war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium.