"You cannot conciliate the South if you guarantee to them ultimate success."
"Should I do so, I should deserve to be damned in time and eternity."
"Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe."
"So long as I am President, it shall be carried on for the sole purpose of restoring the Union."
"No human power can subdue this rebellion without the use of the emancipation policy."
"Freedom has given us one hundred and fifty thousand men, raised on Southern soil."
"Let my enemies prove to the country that the destruction of slavery is not necessary to a restoration of the Union."
"To whom it may concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can con..."
"I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my call for 500,000 volunteers for the military service"
"Volunteers will be accepted under this call for one, two, or three years, as they may elect, and will be entitled to the bounty provided by the law for the period of service for which they enlist."
"And I hereby proclaim, order, and direct that immediately after the 5th day of September, 1864, being fifty days from the date of this call, a draft for troops to serve for one year shall be had in ev..."
"I do hereby appoint the first Thursday of August next to be observed by the people of the United States as a day of national humiliation and prayer."