"He disclaims all right of the Executive to interfere in any way in the matter of canvassing or counting electoral votes."
"The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration."
"Whereas complaints are made in some localities respecting the assignments of quotas and credits allowed for the pending call of troops to fill up the armies"
"Now, in order to determine all controversies in respect thereto and to avoid any delay in filling up the armies, it is ordered that the Attorney-General, Brigadier-General Richard Delafield, and Colon..."
"The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done after the 15th of this month."
"In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th ultimo, requesting information upon the present condition of Mexico and the case of the French war transport steamer Rhine, I transmit a rep..."
"He wished the reunion of all the States perfected and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future;"
"He thought this measure was a very fitting if not an indispensable adjunct to the winding up of the great difficulty."
"But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly began yesterday."
"But that proclamation falls far short of what the amendment will be when fully consummated."
"It winds the whole thing up."
"He could not but congratulate all present, himself, the country and the whole world upon this great moral victory."