Abraham Lincoln said...

In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 6th instant, requesting the return of a certain joint resolution, I transmit...

the President directs that from and after this date the order above referred to requiring passports shall be modified, a...

I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, decl...

Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.