Annotation
[1] ALS, RPB. On January 31, Governor Morton telegraphed, ``It is important that I should see you a few hours, but I cannot leave long enough to go to Washington. Can you meet me at Harrisburg?'' (OR, III, III, 23). Peace Democrats were advocating a Northwest Confederacy. The Indiana legislature had gone Democratic in the 1862 elections, and Morton was having a great deal of trouble. On February 9, he sent Lincoln by Robert Dale Owen a letter outlining the plans of the Democrats to end the war by whatever means, to recognize the Confederacy, and to propose a reunion leaving out the New England States. The letter also dealt with the secret societies which were being organized with the avowed purpose of sabotaging the Union.