I most cordially recommend that Commander David D. Porter, United States Navy, acting rear-admiral, commanding the Mississippi Squadron, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for the bravery and skill displayed in the attack on the post of…

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, requesting a copy of certain correspondence respecting the capture of British vessels sailing from one British port to another having on board contraband of war intended…

I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a report from the Secretary of State, transmitting the regulations, decrees, and orders for the government of the United States consular courts in Turkey.

I am not prepared to say more than that the subject is one of great practical importance and that I hope it will receive the attention of Congress.

I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do determine that the uniform width of the track of said railroad and all its branches which are provided for in the aforesaid act of Congress shall be 5 feet

To the Senate of the United States:I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Senate relative to the correspondence between this Government and the Mexican minister in relation to the…

I feel that I should not perform my duty by a simple announcement of my approval of the joint resolution, without expressing my earnest desire that measures such in substance as those I have just referred to may receive the early sanction…

Such a currency can be furnished by banking associations, organized under a general act of Congress.

I think it my duty to express my sincere regret that it has been found necessary to authorize so large an additional issue of United States notes.

My approval is given in order that every possible facility may be afforded for the prompt discharge of all arrears of pay due to our soldiers and our sailors.

That Congress has power to regulate the currency of the country can hardly admit of doubt.

In order to raise money by way of loans most easily and cheaply, it is clearly necessary to give every possible support to the public credit.

I have not received any representative from the revolutionary Government, which has not yet been recognized, because such a proceeding would in itself be an act of recognition.

The advices which have been received from him have not hitherto been sufficiently conclusive to determine me to recognize the revolutionary Government.

No definitive measure or proceeding has resulted from these communications.

The Secretary of State has submitted to me a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant.

I transmit for the consideration of Congress, and with a view to the adoption of such measures in relation to the subject of it as may be deemed expedient, a copy of a note of the 8th instant addressed to the Secretary of State by the…

It is now further ordered by the President,That the Attorney-General be charged with superintendence and direction of all proceedings to be had under the said last-mentioned act (the act of 1861) as fully in all respects as under the…