Abraham Lincoln said...

The expediency of any legislation on the subject is submitted for your consideration.

With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...

In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have compl...

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