Abraham Lincoln: “No citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country.”

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

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.