Provost-marshals and marshals of the United States will arrest and commit to military custody all such offenders as shall disregard this order, whether they have passports or not, and they will be detained in such custody until the end of…

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, as required by said act, ordering and requiting all deserters to return to their proper posts;

I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days from the date of this proclamation, viz, on or before the 10th day of May, 1865, return to service or report themselves to a provost-marshal shall be pardoned, on…

It is due to this officer to state that he was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability having occurred in the discharge of his duties; and prior to his misfortune he bore the reputation of an efficient and…

the President directs that from and after this date the order above referred to requiring passports shall be modified, and so much thereof as relates to persons entering this country from Canada shall be rescinded, saving and reserving the…

but whereas information has recently been received which affords reasonable grounds to expect that Her Britannic Majesty's Government and the executive and legislative branches of the government of Canada have taken and will continue to…

In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 6th instant, requesting the return of a certain joint resolution, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State.

All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

All dreaded it,--all sought to avert it.

Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued favor of Almighty God.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

I herewith transmit to Congress a report, dated 1st instant, with the accompanying papers, received from the Secretary of State in compliance with the requirements of the eighteenth section of the act entitled 'An act to regulate the…

Sherman went in at Atlanta and came out right.

He has gone in again at Savannah, and I propose three cheers for his coming out gloriously.

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of War, which, with my permission, has been delayed until the present time to enable the Lieutenant-General to furnish his report.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty made and concluded with the Klamath and Modoc tribes of Indians of Oregon, at Fort Klamath, on the 5th day of October, 1864.

To the Senate of the United States:In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, with the accompanying General Orders, No. 23, issued by Major-General Banks at…

The Department buildings will be illuminated on the night of Washington's birthday, in honor of the recent triumphs of the Union.

of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice

I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of…