"That was the birthday of the United States of America."
"I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the Union and liberties of the country from the beginning of the war."
"Gentlemen, this is a glorious theme, and the occasion for a speech, but I am not prepared to make one worthy of the occasion."
"I am very glad indeed to see you to-night."
"He whose will, not ours, should ever be done be everywhere remembered and ever reverenced with profoundest gratitude."
"Now I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, under the authority of said section, do allot the said associate justice, Stephen J. Field, to the said tenth circuit."
"Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy thereof and of the militia of the several States when called into actual service, do here..."
"In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed."
"Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of June, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh."
"No plea of alienage will be received or allowed to exempt from the obligations imposed by the aforesaid act of Congress any person of foreign birth who shall have declared on oath his intention to bec..."
"Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby, in pursuance of the act of Congress aforesaid, declare and proclaim that the said act shall take effect ..."