Abraham Lincoln: “I commend to the particular attention of Congress those parts of it which show that further legislation is desirable for…”

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

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others.

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.

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.