"By direction of the President, all the clerks and employees of the civil Departments and all the employees on the public buildings in Washington will be immediately organized into companies, under the..."
"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
"The draft for 300,000 militia called for by the President will be made on Wednesday, the 3d day of September, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p.m., and continue from day to day between the same hou..."
"If the old regiments should not be filled up by volunteers before the 1st day of September, a special draft will be ordered for the deficiency."
"The writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended in respect to all persons so arrested and detained."
"No citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country."
"All marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States are directed to arrest and detain any person or persons about to depart from the United States in violation of this order."
"Any person liable to draft who shall absent himself from his county or State before such draft is made will be arrested."
"I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it."
"The only thing I think of just now not likely to be better said by some one else is a matter in which we have heard some other persons blamed for what I did myself."
"I occupy a position that enables me to believe that these two gentlemen are not nearly so deep in the quarrel as some presuming to be their friends."
"I know General McClellan wishes to be successful, and I know he does not wish it any more than the Secretary of War for him, and both of them together no more than I wish it."