Message to Congress
07/16/1862
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It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, decl...
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us striv...
while I can not order as within requested, allow me to say that it is my wish for you to relieve the people from all bur...