My dear Sir: As to the expensiveness of the plan of gradual emancipation with compensation, proposed in the late Message, please allow me one or two brief suggestions. Less than
Private & confidential. Hon. O. H. Browning My dear Sir Yours of the 17th is just received; and coming from you, I confess it astonishes me. That you should object
[A. Version] February 11, 1861 My friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these
For your own eye only Hon. A. H. Stephens- My dear Sir Your obliging answer to my short note is just received, and for which please accept my thanks.
Hon. Michael Hahn My dear Sir: I congratulate you on having fixed your name in history as the first—free—state Governor of Louisiana. Now you are about to have a
Private Hon. Andrew Johnson My dear Sir: I am told you have at least thought of raising a negro military force. In my opinion the country now needs no
Message of the President of the United States, 38th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 1. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=069/llcg069.db&recNum=694 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Again the blessings of health and
Hon. Henry W Hoffman My dear Sir: A convention of Maryland has framed a new constitution for the State; a public meeting is called for this evening, at Baltimore,
Ladies and Gentlemen—Calling to mind that we are in Baltimore, we can not fail to note that the world moves. Looking upon these many people, assembled here, to serve,
Source: Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. – 1916: Abraham Lincoln, May-June 1861 Message to Congress, July 4, 1861, Second Printed Draft, with Changes in Lincoln’s Hand.
