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[1] Copy, MdAA-Executive Letter Book (1854-1866), p. 195. The same telegram was sent to both Governor Hicks and Mayor Brown after the dispatch of the letter supra. Governor Hicks was not in Baltimore, but Brown telegraphed that he was coming immediately.'' (DLC-RTL). According to The (Baltimore) South, April 22, and New York Tribune, April 24, George W. Dobbin, John C.Brune and S. T. Wallis accompanied Mayor Brown. Governor Hicks wrote Lincoln April 22, protesting further landing of troops at Annapolis and suggesting that the British minister, Lord Lyons be requested to act as mediator between the contending parties of our country.'' (DLC-RTL). Seward replied at Lincoln's direction that `` . . . the national highway thus selected by the Lieutenant General has been chosen by him upon consultation with prominent magistrates and citizens of Maryland, as the one which, while a route is absolutely necessary, is further removed from the populous cities of the State, and with the expectation that it would, therefore, be the least objectionable one.'' He added that `` . . . no domestic contention . . . ought in any case, to be referred to any foreign arbitrament . . . '' (New York Tribune, April 24, 1861). A statement issued by Mayor Brown, April 21, as printed in The South, April 22, reported Lincoln's remarks during the interview on April 20 in substantial agreement with Lincoln's letter dispatched earlier on the same day,supra.