To sell or enslave any captured person on account of his color, and for no offense against the laws of war, is a relapse into barbarism and a crime against the civilization of the ...
The law of nations and the usages and customs of war, as carried on by civilized powers, permit no distinction as to col...
This practice, if it exists, is disapproved and must cease.
The practice here forbidden is also charged to exist, which, if true, is disapproved and must cease.
What I propose is in strict accordance with international law, and is therefore unobjectionable; whilst, if it does no o...
to visit with tender care and consolation throughout the length and breadth of our land all those who, through the vicis...
It is meet and right to recognize and confess the presence of the Almighty Father and the power of His hand equally in t...
I invite the people of the United States to assemble on that occasion in their customary places of worship and in the fo...
I do set apart Thursday, the 6th day of August next, to be observed as a day for national thanksgiving, praise, and pray...
Why do I hear no more of you?
Ordered, That the appointment of John S. Phelps as military governor of the State of Arkansas and of Amos F. Eno as secr...