3.  That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported.

And with the further understanding that upon receiving the letter and names thus indorsed, I will cause them to be published, which publication shall be, within itself, a revocation of the order in relation to Mr. Vallandigham.  It will not escape observation that I consent to the release of Mr. Vallandigham upon terms not embracing any pledge from him or from others as to what he will or will not do.  I do this because he is not present to speak for himself, or to authorize others to speak for him; and because I should expect that on his returning he would not put himself practically in antagonism with the position of his friends.  But I do it chiefly because I thereby prevail on other influential gentlemen of Ohio to so define their position as to be of immense value to the army—­thus more than compensating for the consequences of any mistake in allowing Mr. Vallandigham to return; so that, on the whole, the public safety will not have suffered by it.  Still, in regard to Mr. Vallandigham and all others, I must hereafter, as heretofore, do so much as the public safety may seem to require.

I have the honor to be respectfully yours, etc.,

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR PARKER.

Executive Mansion, Washington, June 30, 1863. 10.55

Governor Parker, Trenton, N.J.: 

Your despatch of yesterday received.  I really think the attitude of the enemy’s army in Pennsylvania presents us the best opportunity we have had since the war began.  I think you will not see the foe in New Jersey.  I beg you to be assured that no one out of my position can know so well as if he were in it the difficulties and involvements of replacing General McClellan in command, and this aside from any imputations upon him.

Please accept my sincere thanks for what you have done and are doing to get troops forward.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO A. K. McCLURE.

War department, Washington city, June 30, 1863.

A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia: 

Do we gain anything by opening one leak to stop another?  Do we gain anything by quieting one merely to open another, and probably a larger one?

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to general Couch.
[Cipher]
Washington city, June 30, 1863. 3.23 P.M.

Major-general Couch, Harrisburg, Pa.: 

I judge by absence of news that the enemy is not crossing or pressing up to the Susquehanna.  Please tell me what you know of his movements.