Remarks in Response to a Serenade
01/31/1865
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But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly...
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.
Your having shown me Mr. Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am n...