Abraham Lincoln actually said...

And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.

He disclaims all right of the Executive to interfere in any way in the matter of canvassing or counting electoral votes.

In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have complete power to exclude...

The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done after the 15th of t...