I hereby enjoin upon all district attorneys, marshals, and officers of the revenue and of the military and naval forces ...
to pray that we may be spared further punishment, though most justly deserved.
that the inestimable boon of civil and religious liberty, earned under His guidance and blessing by the labors and suffe...
to humble ourselves before Him and to pray for His mercy.
Whereas it is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God.
it is peculiarly fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation.
to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses and for a blessing upon their present and...
to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full convi...
Public safety requires strict enforcement of this article.
It was my intention, as shown by my letter of June 20, 1861, to appoint Hon. James H. Lane, of Kansas, a brigadier-gener...
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds o...
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existin...
To destroy the spirit of the Union, is to destroy the Union itself.
I submit, therefore, the expediency of the passage of a resolution authorizing the exchange of ratifications at such tim...
The minister of that Republic is disappointed in not having received the copy intended for exchange, and the period will...
I deem it proper to invite the attention of the Senate to the fact that with this day expires the limitation of time for...
The safety of the immense amount of public property in this city and that of the archives of the Government, in which al...
