Governor Andrew, Boston, Mass.: 

Your despatch saying “I can’t get those regiments off because I can’t get quick work out of the V. S. disbursing officer and the paymaster” is received.  Please say to these gentlemen that if they do not work quickly I will make quick work with them.  In the name of all that is reasonable, how long does it take to pay a couple of regiments?  We were never more in need of the arrival of regiments than now—­even to-day.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR CURTIN.

War department, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1862.

Governor Curtin, Harrisburg, Penn.: 

It is very important for some regiments to arrive here at once.  What lack you from us?  What can we do to expedite matters?  Answer.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL S. R. CURTIS.

Washington, D. C., August 12, 1862.

Major-general Curtis, St. Louis, Missouri: 

Would the completion of the railroad some distance farther in the direction of Springfield, Mo., be of any military advantage to you?  Please answer.

A. Lincoln.

ADDRESS ON COLONIZATION TO A DEPUTATION OF COLORED MEN.

Washington, Thursday, August 14, 1862.

This afternoon the President of the United States gave an audience to a committee of colored men at the White House.  They were introduced by Rev. J. Mitchell, Commissioner of Emigration, E. M. Thomas, the chairman, remarked that they were there by invitation to hear what the Executive had to say to them.

Having all been seated, the President, after a few preliminary observations, informed them that a sum of money had been appropriated by Congress, and placed at his disposition, for the purpose of aiding the colonization, in some country, of the people, or a portion of them, of African descent, thereby making it his duty, as it had for a long time been his inclination, to favor that cause.  And why, he asked, should the people of your race be colonized, and where?  Why should they leave this country?  This is, perhaps, the first question for proper consideration.  You and we are different races.  We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races.  Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think.  Your race suffer very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence.  In a word, we suffer on each side.  If this is admitted, it affords a reason, at least, why we should be separated.  You here are free men, I suppose.

[A voice—­“Yes, sir!”]