Political Quotes

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.

All dreaded it,--all sought to avert it.

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, as required by said act, ordering and requiting all deserters to return to their proper posts;

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.