Important from President Lincoln

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