Special Message
02/12/1865
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In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have compl...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, decl...
It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...
With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...