Remarks in Response to a Serenade
12/05/1864
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In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, requesting information in regard to arrests in the State of Kentucky, I trans...
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics.
Neither General Hunter nor any other commander or person has been authorized by the Government of the United States to make proclamations de...
whether it be competent for me, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether a...