Abraham Lincoln said...

The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...

The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration.

He wished the reunion of all the States perfected and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future;

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