Abraham Lincoln actually said...

Considering that the existing circumstances of the country allow a partial restoration of commercial intercourse between the inhabitants of ...

I hereby license and permit such commercial intercourse in all cases within the rules and regulations which have been or may be prescribed b...

It is hardly necessary to add that the nomination was made without any knowledge of it on his part.

WAR DEPARTMENTIt is ordered, first. That a special commission of two persons, one of military rank and the other in civil life, be appointed...