Of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indicated.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to general J. Pope. 
Executive Mansion, Washington, February 14, 1865.

Major-general Pope, St. Louis, Missouri: 

Yours of yesterday about provost-marshal system received.  As part of the same subject, let me say I am now pressed in regard to a pending assessment in St. Louis County.  Please examine and satisfy yourself whether this assessment should proceed or be abandoned; and if you decide that it is to proceed, please examine as to the propriety of its application to a gentleman by the name of Charles McLaran.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to general Pope. 
Executive Mansion, Washington February 15, 1865.

Major-general Pope, St. Louis, Missouri: 

Please ascertain whether General Fisk’s administration is as good as it might be, and answer me.

A. Lincoln.

PROCLAMATION CONVENING THE SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION,

February 17, 1865.

By the president of the united states of America: 

A Proclamation

Whereas objects of interest to the United States require that the Senate should be convened at twelve o’clock on the fourth of March next to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive;

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this, my proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the fourth day of March next, at twelve o’clock at noon on that day, of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice.

Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at
Washington...............

Abraham Lincoln. 
By the President: 
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

TELEGRAM TO OFFICER IN COMMAND AT HARPER’S FERRY.  EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, February 17, 1865

Officer in command at Harper’s Ferry: 

Chaplain Fitzgibbon yesterday sent me a despatch invoking Clemency for Jackson, Stewart, and Randall, who are to be shot to-day.  The despatch is so vague that there is no means here of ascertaining whether or not the execution of sentence of one or more of them may not already have been ordered.  If not suspend execution of sentence m their cases until further orders and forward records of trials for examination.