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[1] ALS, RPB. Erastus Corning, wealthy iron manufacturer and Democrat, forwarded on May 19 a lengthy series of resolutions adopted by a public meeting in Albany, New York, on May 16, 1863. The resolutions are too long to quote in full, but may be found in the American Annual Cyclopaedia, 1863, pp. 799-800. In substance the resolutions pledged allegiance to the Union, but denounced ``the recent assumption of a military commander to seize and try a citizen of Ohio, Clement L. Vallandigham, for no other reason that words addressed to a public meeting, in criticism of the course of the Administration, and in condemnation of the military orders of that general,'' and called upon the president to ``be true to the Constitution'' and ``maintain the rights of the States and the liberties of the citizen. . . .'' See Lincoln's reply of June 12, infra.