Abraham Lincoln: “The action of the Senate is of course conclusive against an acceptance of the treaties on my part.”

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Ordered, first. That at the hour of noon on the 14th day of April, 1865, Brevet Major-General Anderson will raise and plant upon the ruins of Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, the same United States flag which floated over the battlements…