My dear sir:—­You must make a job for the bearer of this—­make a job of it with the collector and have it done.  You can do it for me and you must.

Yours as ever,
A. Lincoln

TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR O. P. MORTON.

WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 15, 1861

Governor Morton, Indiana:  Start your four regiments to St. Louis at the earliest moment possible.  Get such harness as may be necessary for your rifled gums.  Do not delay a single regiment, but hasten everything forward as soon as any one regiment is ready.  Have your three additional regiments organized at once.  We shall endeavor to send you the arms this week.

A. LINCOLN

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL FREMONT,

Washington, August 15, 1861

To major-general Fremont: 

Been answering your messages since day before yesterday.  Do you receive the answers?  The War Department has notified all the governors you designate to forward all available force.  So telegraphed you.  Have you received these messages?  Answer immediately.

A. Lincoln.

PROCLAMATION FORBIDDING INTERCOURSE WITH REBEL STATES, AUGUST 16, 1861.

By the president of the united states of America: 

A Proclamation.

Whereas on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the President of the United States, in view of an insurrection against the laws, Constitution, and government of the United States which had broken out within the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and in pursuance of the provisions of the act entitled “An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose,” approved February twenty-eighth, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, did call forth the militia to suppress said insurrection, and to cause the laws of the Union to be duly executed, and the insurgents have failed to disperse by the time directed by the President; and whereas such insurrection has since broken out and yet exists within the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas; and whereas the insurgents in all the said States claim to act under the authority thereof, and such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of government in such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which such combinations exist, nor has such insurrection been suppressed by said States: