The President has recently been heard from upon various topics relating to the war. We to-day publish his replies to committees from the St. Louis German Emancipation meeting, the New York meeting to urge the organization of an army of negro troops to be commanded by Gen. Fremont, and the Democratic meeting at Albany remonstrating against the arrest and banishment of Vallandigham, and demanding his release and return to Ohio.
The President tells the Germans of St. Louis that he is in favor of the “gradual emancipation” in that State, and explains the causes which led to recent military changes.
He tells the New York colored troops committee that it is the policy of the Government to accept into the military service all the emancipated slaves it can get and that he will give Fremont a command of an army of negro troops if he will accept it.
And he tells the Vallandigham men that he regrets that there was any occasion for the arrest of that demagogue, and that if he can be convinced that it will be for the public welfare to pardon him and restore him to his home, it shall be done. – Chicago Journal
– Published in the Stark County News, Toulon, Illinois, Thursday, June 18, 1863
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Important from President Lincoln
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
From Washington
New York, April 8. – The New York Tribune’s correspondent, writing under date of Washington, April 7, says:
We learn from the Richmond Examiner that Trusten Polk and Waldo P. Johnson, who were expelled from the United States Senate, are both privates in Gen. Price’s army.
The Richmond Examiner learns that the rebel House of Representatives have decided by a vote in secret session, to repeal the tariff, and establish free trade with all countries except the United States. There are said to have been only seventeen votes against the proposition.
The slaves of James M. Mason have decamped from Winchester in a body, and made their way to Philadelphia. It is currently reported also that one of Mr. Mason’s daughters has become hopelessly insane in consequence of the serious family misfortunes.
A dispatch, April 7th, to the New York World states: A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer arrived to day from the Rappahannock. He reports all quiet along the lines, our advance guard having reached there. The rebels have destroyed the magnificent bridge over the river, and the smaller bridges along the route. No signs of the enemy are observed on the opposite bank of the river, although they are supposed to be lurking behind the hills.
Scouting parties of rebel cavalry are said to be roaming over the country, plundering and destroying all property within their reach. It is thought that they consist of organized bodies of the farmers of the vicinity.
The Herald’s dispatch says: The committee of nine on the emancipation question will probably consist of Messrs. White, of Indiana; Lovejoy, of Illinois; Bingham, of Ohio; Roscoe Conkling, of New York; Pike, of Maine; Allen, of Massachusetts; Edwards, of New Hampshire; Kellogg, of Michigan, and Hickman, of Pennsylvania.
General Sickles has been relieved from command of the Excelsior Brigade, by order of Gen. Hooker, commanding the division, on account of the rejection by the Senate of his nomination as Brigadier General.
– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Thursday, April 10, 1862
We learn from the Richmond Examiner that Trusten Polk and Waldo P. Johnson, who were expelled from the United States Senate, are both privates in Gen. Price’s army.
The Richmond Examiner learns that the rebel House of Representatives have decided by a vote in secret session, to repeal the tariff, and establish free trade with all countries except the United States. There are said to have been only seventeen votes against the proposition.
The slaves of James M. Mason have decamped from Winchester in a body, and made their way to Philadelphia. It is currently reported also that one of Mr. Mason’s daughters has become hopelessly insane in consequence of the serious family misfortunes.
A dispatch, April 7th, to the New York World states: A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer arrived to day from the Rappahannock. He reports all quiet along the lines, our advance guard having reached there. The rebels have destroyed the magnificent bridge over the river, and the smaller bridges along the route. No signs of the enemy are observed on the opposite bank of the river, although they are supposed to be lurking behind the hills.
Scouting parties of rebel cavalry are said to be roaming over the country, plundering and destroying all property within their reach. It is thought that they consist of organized bodies of the farmers of the vicinity.
The Herald’s dispatch says: The committee of nine on the emancipation question will probably consist of Messrs. White, of Indiana; Lovejoy, of Illinois; Bingham, of Ohio; Roscoe Conkling, of New York; Pike, of Maine; Allen, of Massachusetts; Edwards, of New Hampshire; Kellogg, of Michigan, and Hickman, of Pennsylvania.
General Sickles has been relieved from command of the Excelsior Brigade, by order of Gen. Hooker, commanding the division, on account of the rejection by the Senate of his nomination as Brigadier General.
– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Thursday, April 10, 1862
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