Albany, Monday, August
3,1863.
To Major-general John A. Dir, Commanding Eastern
Department, etc.:
Sir,—I
received your
letter on Saturday. I have this day sent to the President of the United
States a communication in relation to the draft in this State. I believe his
answer will relieve you and me from the painful questions growing out of an
armed enforcement of the conscription law in this patriotic State, which has
contributed so largely and freely to the support of the National cause during
the existing war. When I receive the President's answer I will write to you
again upon the subject of your letter.
Truly yours, etc.,
Horatio Seymour.
SOURCE: Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John Adams Dix,
Volume 2, p. 78
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