Abraham Lincoln said...

The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...

By no other result can the six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and, at the same time deal justly and keep ...

The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bil...

But that proclamation falls far short of what the amendment will be when fully consummated.