Abraham Lincoln said...

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

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

With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...

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