Special Message
12/11/1867
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
He who is opposed to the restoration of this government and the reunion of the States, is as great a traitor as Jeff. Davis or Wendell Phill...
I am not the Chief Justice. I am not the prosecuting attorney.
Large as it is, it is not large enough to divide.
Obey the constitution, submit to the laws, and let us all become one people again.