Remarks in Response to a Serenade
07/06/1863
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The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...
These three thousand five hundred and two thousand five hundred make precisely six thousand, which the supposed case req...
But that proclamation falls far short of what the amendment will be when fully consummated.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, decl...