Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"I deem it incompatible with the public interest, as also, perhaps, unjust to General Stone, to make a more particular statement of the evidence."

"He has not been tried because in the state of military operations at the time of his arrest and since the officers to constitute a court-martial and for witnesses could not be withdrawn from duty with..."

"To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith, for the constitutional action of the Senate, a treaty negotiated on the 13th of March, 1862, between H. W. Farnsworth, a commissioner on the pa..."

"In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of February last, requesting information in regard to insurgent privateers in foreign ports."