Political Quotes

The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remaining after all fair credits have been deducted.

In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have complete power to exclude from counting all electoral votes deemed by them to be illegal, and it is not competent for the…

The Department buildings will be illuminated on the night of Washington's birthday, in honor of the recent triumphs of the Union.

But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly began yesterday.