With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the duty required under the most favorable circumstances, and n...
It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...
The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration.
Complaint is made to me, by Vermont, that the assignment of her quota for the draft on the pending call is intrinsically...
By no other result can the six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and, at the same time deal justly and keep ...
These three thousand five hundred and two thousand five hundred make precisely six thousand, which the supposed case req...
The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.
He disclaims all right of the Executive to interfere in any way in the matter of canvassing or counting electoral votes.
In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have compl...
The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...