STATE PAPERS

1861-1865

BY

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

NEW YORK

THE CURRENT LITERATURE PUBLISHING Co.

1907

Copyright, 1907, Current Literature Publishing Company

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION:

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xi

Abraham Lincoln. By James Russell Lowell xiii

The First American. Extract from Ode Recited

at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1863.

By James Russell Lowell

Lincoln's Personal Appearance. By William H.

Herndon

President Lincoln's State Papers. By Henry

J. Raymond

GENERAL MESSAGES TO CONGRESS:

Message to Congress in Special Session. July

4, 1861

Ännual Message.

December 3, 1861

Annual Message. December 1, 1862

Annual Message. December 8, 1863

Annual Message. December 6, 1864

PROCLAMATIONs, Messages, etc., CONCERNING Slav-

ERY:

Message to Congress Recommending Com-

pensated Emancipation. March 6, 1862

Message to Congress on Passage of Act to

Abolish Slavery in District of Columbia. April

16, 1862

Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's Order

of Military Emancipation. May 19, 1862

Message to Congress Enclosing Draft of Bill

to Compensate States That Abolish Slavery.

July 14, 1862

Message to Congress on Act to Confiscate

Property of Rebels, etc. July 17, 1862

Order Authorizing Employment of "Contra-

bands." July 22, 1862

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25

51

82

105

129

131

132

135

136

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Sep-

tember 22, 1862

Final Emancipation Proclamation. January 1,

1863

Message to Congress on Freedmen's Aid So-

cieties. December 17, 1863

Order to Bring Back Negro Colonists from

San Domingo. February 1, 1864

PROCLAMATIONS OF DAYS OF THANKSGIVING, FAST-

ING, AND PRAYER:

Proclamation of a National Fast-Day. August

12, 1861

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142

145

148

148

Proclamation of a National Fast-Day. March

Proclamation of Celebration of Washington's

Birthday. February 19, 1862

153

154

Proclamation Recommending Thanksgiving for

Victories. April 10, 1862

155

30, 1863

156

4, 1863

158

July

15,

158

Announcement of News from Gettysburg. July

Proclamation for Thanksgiving.

1863

Proclamation for Thanksgiving. October 3,

1863

Recommendation of Thanksgiving for Union

Success in East Tennessee. December 7,

1863

Recommendation of Thanksgiving. May

PROCLAMATIONS, MESSAGES, AND GENERAL MILITARY

ORDERS RELATING TO THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR:

Cabinet Conference on Provisioning Fort

Sumter. March 15, 1861

169

Message to Senate Refusing to Make Public