Abraham Lincoln said...

Its observance will be strictly enforced by all officers, civil, military, and naval in the service of the United States...

He thought this measure was a very fitting if not an indispensable adjunct to the winding up of the great difficulty.

It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...

Since the adjournment of the last session of Congress other errors of a kind similar to those which this resolution was ...