the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion
For these, and especially for the improved condition of our national affairs, our renewed and profoundest gratitude to G...
so far as it relates to State governments, has no reference to States wherein loyal State governments have all the while...
I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is ...
I do therefore, in conformity to the seventh section of the act approved 16th July, 1862, nominate Commander D. D. Porte...
a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slave...
Congress, on my recommendation, passed a resolution, approved 7th February, 1863, tendering its thanks to Commander D. D...
I most cordially recommend that Captain John Rodgers, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks from Congress for the...
I have thought it proper, subject to the approval of the Senate, to concur with the interested commercial powers in an a...
I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship and render spe...
You may fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people al...