Abraham Lincoln: “The Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy will issue the necessary directions in their respective Departments for…”

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.

Second. That the flag, when raised, be saluted by one hundred guns from Fort Sumter and by a national salute from every fort and rebel battery that fired upon Fort Sumter.