Abraham Lincoln: “I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.”

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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.

I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days from the date of this proclamation, viz, on or before the 10th day of May, 1865, return to service or report themselves to a provost-marshal shall be pardoned, on…

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.