"The immense mineral resources of some of those Territories ought to be developed as rapidly as possible."
"Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history."
"The treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade has been put into operation with a good prospect of complete success."
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act an..."
"We must think anew, act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves from the past, and then we shall save our country."
"Ordered, That no arms ammunition, or munitions of war be cleared or allowed to be exported from the United States until further order"
"The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer nor the cause they defend be imperiled by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High."
"At this time of public distress, men may find enough to do in the service of God and their country without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality."
"The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country."
"Ordered by the President of the United States, That the Attorney-General be charged with the superintendence and direction of all proceedings to be had under the act of Congress of the 17th of July, 1..."
"The Attorney-General is authorized and required to give to the attorneys and marshals of the United States such instructions and directions as he may find needful and convenient touching all such seiz..."