Abraham Lincoln said...

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

But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly...

of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indic...

Since the adjournment of the last session of Congress other errors of a kind similar to those which this resolution was ...