WAR DEPARTMENT, June
15, 1863 — 7.30 p.m.
Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Harrisburg:
The President has referred your telegram to me for answer.
No one can tell how long the present emergency for troops in Pennsylvania may
continue. The present movement is but the execution of Jeff. Davis' original
plan to make Pennsylvania and the loyal States the theater of war. The rebels
are encouraged by the hope of assistance and encouragement held out to them by
opposition to the war and resistance to the enrollment in Pennsylvania. The law
has fixed the period for which troops shall be called. If the emergency is over
before that time, they can be discharged; but as human foresight cannot say how
long it may take to drive out the rebels, especially if they should find aid
and comfort in Pennsylvania, the President thinks he must obey the law.
EDWIN M. STANTON.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
27, Part 3 (Serial No. 45), p. 141-2
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