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[1] LS, InFtwL; LS copy, DLC-RTL. See Lincoln's memorandum, supra. On September 12, 1864, Governor Morton, Indiana Republicans in congress, and others wrote Stanton:
`` . . . we express it as our profound conviction that upon the issue of the election that occurs within a month from this date may depend the question as to whether the secession element shall be effectually crushed or whether it shall acquire strength enough, we do not say to take the state out of the Union, but practically to sever her from the general government, so far as future military aid is concerned.
``We further express the gravest doubts as to whether it will be possible for us to secure success at the polls on the 11th of October unless we can receive aid---
``1. By delay of the draft until the election has passed.
``2. By the return, before election day, of fifteen thousand Indiana soldiers. . . .'' (William Dudley Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton, I, 367).