Second Inaugural Address
03/03/1865
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Whereas complaints are made in some localities respecting the assignments of quotas and credits allowed for the pending ...
But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly...
He could not but congratulate all present, himself, the country and the whole world upon this great moral victory.
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded at the Isabella Indian Reser...