They are having a stampede in Kentucky.  Please look to it.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. T. BOYLE.

Washington, July 13, 1862.

General J. T. Boyle, Louisville, Kentucky: 

Your several despatches received.  You should call on General Halleck.  Telegraph him at once.  I have telegraphed him that you are in trouble.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. T. BOYLE.

War department, July 13, 1862.

General J. T. Boyle, Louisville, Kentucky: 

We cannot venture to order troops from General Buell.  We know not what condition he is in.  He maybe attacked himself.  You must call on General Halleck, who commands, and whose business it is to understand and care for the whole field If you cannot telegraph to him, send a messenger to him.  A dispatch has this moment come from Halleck at Tuscombia, Alabama.

A. Lincoln.

ACT OF COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION

Message to Congress.

July 4, 1862.

Fellow-citizens of the Senate and house of representatives: 

Herewith is the draft of the bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the passage of which, substantially as presented, I respectfully and earnestly recommend.

Abraham Lincoln.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:—­That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that any State shall have lawfully abolished slavery within and through-out such State, either immediately or gradually, it shall be the duty of the President, assisted by the Secretary of the Treasury, to prepare and deliver to each State an amount of six per cent. interest-bearing bonds of the United States equal to the aggregate value at ______ dollars per head of all the slaves within such State, as reported by the census of 1860; the whole amount for any one State to be delivered at once if the abolishment be immediate, or in equal annual instalments if it be gradual, interest to begin running on each bond at the time of delivery, and not before.

And be it further enacted, That if any State, having so received any such bonds, shall at any time afterwards by law reintroduce or tolerate slavery within its limits, contrary to the act of abolishment upon which such bonds shall have been received, said bonds so received by said State shall at once be null and void, in whosesoever hands they may be, and such State shall refund to the United States all interest which may have been paid on such bonds.