The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 350 pages of information about The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6.

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 350 pages of information about The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL SLOCUM.

War department, Washington, D. C., June 25,1863.

Major-general Slocum, Leesburg, Va.: 

Was William Gruvier, Company A, Forty-sixth, Pennsylvania, one of the men executed as a deserter last Friday?

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL HOOKER.

War department, Washington, D. C., June 27, 1863. 8A.M.

Major-general Hooker

It did not come from the newspapers, nor did I believe it, but I wished to be entirely sure it was a falsehood.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL BURNSIDE.

Executive Mansion, Washington, June 28, 1863.

Major-general Burnside, Cincinnati, O.: 

There is nothing going on in Kentucky on the subject of which you telegraph, except an enrolment.  Before anything is done beyond this, I will take care to understand the case better than I now do.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR BOYLE.

Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., June 28, 1863.

Governor J. T. Boyle, Cincinnati, O.: 

There is nothing going on in Kentucky on the subject of which you telegraph, except an enrolment.  Before anything is done beyond this, I will take care to understand the case better than I now do.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL SCHENCK.

War department, Washington, D. C.,
June 28, 1863.

Major general Schenck, Baltimore, Md.: 

Every place in the Naval school subject to my appointment is full, and I have one unredeemed promise of more than half a year’s standing.

A. Lincoln.

FURTHER DEMOCRATIC PARTY CRITICISM

To M. Birchard and others.

Washington, D. C.,
June 29,1863.

Messrs.  M. Birchard, David A. Houk, et al: 

Gentlemen:—­The resolutions of the Ohio Democratic State convention, which you present me, together with your introductory and closing remarks, being in position and argument mainly the same as the resolutions of the Democratic meeting at Albany, New York, I refer you to my response to the latter as meeting most of the points in the former.

This response you evidently used in preparing your remarks, and I desire no more than that it be used with accuracy.  In a single reading of your remarks, I only discovered one inaccuracy in matter, which I suppose you took from that paper.  It is where you say:  “The undersigned are unable to agree with you in the opinion you have expressed that the Constitution is different in time of insurrection or invasion from what it is in time of peace and public security.”

Copyrights
Project Gutenberg
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863 from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.