designates certain frontier ports through which merchandise may be exported, and further provides “that such other ports, situated on the frontiers of the United States adjoining the British North American provinces, as may hereafter be found expedient, may have extended to them the like privileges, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and proclamation duly made by the President of the United States, specially designating the ports to which the aforesaid privileges are to be extended.”

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, do hereby declare and proclaim that the port of Newport, in the State of Vermont, is and shall be entitled to all the privileges in regard to the exportation of merchandise in bond to the British North American provinces adjoining the United States, which are extended to the ports enumerated in the seventh section of the act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1845, aforesaid, from and after the date of this proclamation.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.  Done at the city of Washington, this eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the independence of the United States of America, the eighty-ninth.

Abraham Lincoln.

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

INDORSEMENT CONCERNING AN EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS, AUGUST 18, 1864.

If General Hitchcock can effect a special exchange of Thomas D. Armesy, now under conviction as a spy, or something of the sort, and in prison at for Major Nathan Goff, made a prisoner of war, and now in prison at Richmond, let it be done.

A. Lincoln.

ADDRESS TO THE 164TH OHIO REGIMENT,

August 18, 1864.

Soldiers:—­You are about to return to your homes and your friends, after having, as I learn, performed in camp a comparatively short term of duty in this great contest.  I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.  I wish it might be more generally and universally understood what the country is now engaged in.  We have, as all will agree, a free government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.  In this great struggle, this form of government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.  There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one.  There is involved in this struggle, the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.  I say this, in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose.