Remarks in Response to a Serenade
12/05/1864
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Said special commissioners shall also investigate and report upon any other matters that may hereafter be directed by th...
In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have compl...
He could not but congratulate all present, himself, the country and the whole world upon this great moral victory.
By no other result can the six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and, at the same time deal justly and keep ...