Executive Order
01/21/1862
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I propose that you give three hearty cheers for Sheridan.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desi...
And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust and from t...
He has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while He has opened to us new sources of wealth and has cro...