The purchase money will be held in trust toward satisfying any valid claims which may be presented by the Japanese on ac...
It is deemed to comport with the public interest, in view of the unsettled condition of the relations of the United Stat...
If, however, the Secretary of the Navy should ascertain that the steamer is adapted to our service, he is authorized to ...
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
it is deemed advisable that they should be opened to domestic and foreign commerce:
that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from ...
Whereas by my proclamation of the 19th of April, 1861, it was declared that the ports of certain States, including those...
By order of the President of the United States
It has demonstrated that a people's government can sustain a national election, in the midst of a great civil war.
May I ask those who have not differed with me, to join with me, in this same spirit towards those who have?
But the election, along with its incidental, and undesirable strife, has done good too.
But the election was a necessity.
If the loyal people, united, were put to the utmost of their strength by the rebellion, must they not fail when divided,...
Human-nature will not change.
While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for h...
And now, let me close by asking three hearty cheers for our brave soldiers and seamen and their gallant and skilful comm...
It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong ...
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national...
