
Stay of Execution for Nathaniel Gordon
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting: Whereas, it appears that at a Term of the Circuit Court of

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting: Whereas, it appears that at a Term of the Circuit Court of

Source: Abraham Lincoln, “Proclamation 115 – Concerning a Bill To Guarantee to Certain States, Whose Governments Have Been Usurped or Overthrown, a Republican Form of Government.” Online by Gerhard Peters

MY DEAR SIR: Months ago I should have acknowledged the receipt of your book and accompanying kind note, and I now have to beg your pardon for not having done
I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you

Equality, in society, alike beats inequality, whether the latter be of the British aristocratic sort, or of the domestic slavery sort. We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better

Messrs M. Birchard David A Houk Geo. Bliss T. W. Bartley W. J. Gordon Jno. O’Neill C. A. White W. E. Finck Alexander Long J. W White Geo. H.

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain

All creation is a mine, and every man, a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself, in his physical, moral, and

Springfield Dear Madam: Without appologising[sic] for being egotistical, I shall make the history of so much of my own life, as has elapsed since I saw you, the subject
Dear Brother: On the day before yesterday I received a letter from Harriett, written at Greenup. She says she has just returned from your house; and that Father is