"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed."
"The execution of the laws for the suppression of the African slave trade has been confided to the Department of the Interior."
"I venture to hope it will appear that we have practiced prudence and liberality toward foreign powers, averting causes of irritation and with firmness maintaining our own rights and honor."
"The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also."
"If it were just to suppose, as the insurgents have seemed to assume, that foreign nations in this case, discarding all moral, social, and treaty obligations, would act solely and selfishly for the mos..."
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital."
"The municipal authorities of Washington and Georgetown, in this District, having appointed to-morrow, the 28th instant, as a day of thanksgiving, the several Departments will on that occasion be close..."
"It is therefore ordered, by direction of the President, that if any person shall hereafter attempt within the State of Virginia, under the alleged authority of said Commonwealth, to exercise any offic..."
"Complaint has been made to the President of the United States that certain persons within the State of Virginia, in places occupied by the forces of the United States, claim to be incumbents of civil ..."
"It is to be held, in camp and in the field, drilled, disciplined, and governed according to the Regulations of the United States Army and subject to the Articles of War; but it is not to be ordered ou..."
"They shall be considered as disbanded from the service of the United States whenever the President may so direct."