Abraham Lincoln actually said...

I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for the mutual adjustment of claims between the United...

I submit to Congress the expediency of extending to other Departments of the Government the authority conferred on the President by the eigh...

I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free,

And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to...