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[1] ADf, DLC-Cameron Papers. Hamilton R. Gamble had been inaugurated governor of Missouri on July 31. On August 5, he issued a proclamation that
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
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- Title
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
- Author
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
- 1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln4. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.
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Page 471
`` . . . If those citizens, who at the call of the late Governor have taken up arms, choose to return voluntarily to their homes . . . they will find in the present Executive a determination to afford them all the security in his power. . . . '' (New York Tribune, August 6, 1861). Although Cameron's message, composed in part by Lincoln, appears in the Tribune along with the proclamation, Gamble's message directed to the president has not been located.
[2] The draft in the Cameron Papers has the remainder of this sentence in Lincoln's autograph.