Abraham Lincoln actually said...

You are directed to have a transport sent to the colored colony established by the United States at the island of Vache, on the coast of San...

Ordered, That a draft for 500,000 men, to serve for three years or during the war, be made on the 10th day of March next for the military se...

The colonists will be brought to Washington, unless otherwise hereafter directed, and be employed and provided for at the camps for colored ...

Those only will be brought from the island who desire to return, and their effects will be brought with them.