Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7.

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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To Lyman Trumbull1Jump to section

Hon. Lyman Trumbull Executive Mansion,
My dear Sir. Washington, June 17, 1864.

Yours relative to reorganization of a State Government for Arkansas is received. I believe none of the Departments have had any thing to do with it. All that has been done within the range you mention, is embraced in an informal letter and telegraphic correspondence between parties there and myself, copies of which I have already furnished to Mr. Dawes2Jump to section of the H.R. for the object corresponding to yours. It will save labor, and oblige me, if you will procure him to show you them. I believe you will find mentioned, a proclamation of Gen. Steele, no copy of which is with with [sic] the correspondence. The reason is I could not find it.

If, after reading this, it still would be more satisfactory to you to have copies for yourself, let me know, and I will have them made out as soon as I reasonably can. Yours truly A. LINCOLN

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Annotation

[1]   ADfS, DLC-RTL. On June 15, 1864, Senator Trumbull, chairman of the committee on the judiciary, wrote Lincoln:

``The Senate have referred the Credentials of Messrs. [Elisha] Baxter and [William M.] Fishback, claiming to be elected Senators from the State of Arkansas, to this Committee, and in the investigation of their right to seats, the Committee desire to be informed what steps, if any, have been taken by the President, or any of the Departments, or officers under his authority, towards the establishment, or recognition of a State government in Arkansas since the inhabitants of that State were declared to be in a state of insurrection.

``Will you have the kindness to cause copies of such papers or documents as relate to this subject to be sent to the Committee.'' (DLC-RTL).

[2]   Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts.

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