Know ye that, whereas a paper bearing date the 31st day of December last, purporting to be an agreement between the Unit...
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby revoke the said exceptions, and declare th...
and that all commercial intercourse not licensed and conducted as provided in said act between the said States and the i...
and all cotton, tobacco, and other products, and all other goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, coming from any of...
Whereas experience has shown that the exceptions made in and by said proclamation embarrass the due enforcement of said ...
Whereas it appears that a partial restoration of such intercourse between the inhabitants of sundry places and sections ...
We have forgotten God.
It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for cleme...
I herewith transmit to the Senate, for its consideration and ratification, a treaty with the chiefs and headmen of the C...
I do hereby order and command that all soldiers enlisted or drafted in the service of the United States now absent from ...
I do therefore call upon all patriotic and faithful citizens to oppose and resist the aforementioned dangerous and treas...
For the reasons stated by the Secretary of War, I present the nomination of the persons named in the accompanying commun...
I transmit to Congress a copy of a preamble and joint resolution of the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mex...
I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a dispatch to the Secretary of State from the United States consul at Liv...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 26th instant. requesting a copy of any correspondence which may h...
I have the honor to inclose herewith a letter of the 24th instant from the Secretary of War, by which it appears that th...
The pay of a passed midshipman on the retired list from $788 to $350 per annum, or less than half of previous rate.