Abraham Lincoln said...

My reason for so doing is that I am informed that this joint resolution was prepared during the last moments of the last...

But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly...

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

I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of...