Abraham Lincoln said...

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

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

But that proclamation falls far short of what the amendment will be when fully consummated.

Now, in order to determine all controversies in respect thereto and to avoid any delay in filling up the armies, it is o...