The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

STATE PAPERS OF ABRAIIHAM LINCOLN.

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people of that State, denouncing as false and calumnious
the statements widely circulated of the designs and sentiments of the Union armies, and declaring that they
sought only "to put down rebellion by making war
against those in arms, their aiders and abettors"-and
that they came to "vindicate the Constitution, and to
preserve and perpetuate civil and religious liberty under
a flag that was embalmed in the blood of our Revolutionary fathers." In all this the Government adhered, with
just and rigorous fidelity, to the principles it had adopted for its conduct at the outset of tlhe war; and in its
anxiety to avoid all cause of complaint and all appearance of justification for tllose who were in arms against its
authority, it incurred tlhe distrust and even the denunciation of the more zealous and vehement among its own
friends and supporters in the Northern States.
On tlle 22d of July, in order to secure unity of action
among the commanders of the several military departme nts,
upon the general use to be made of rebel property, the
President directed the issue of the following order:
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHIN'GTON, July 22, 1862.
First. Ordered that military commanders within thle States of Virginia,
North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
and Arkansas, in an orderly manner seize and use any property, real or
personal, which may be necessary or convenient for tlheir several commands, for supplies, or for other military purposes; and that while property may be destroyed for proper military objects, none shall be destroyed
in wantonness or malice.
Second. Tlhat milit'ary and naval commanders shall employ as laborers,
within and from said States, so many persons of African descent as can
be advantageously used for military or naval purposes, giving them reasonable wages for their labor.
Third. That, as to both property, and persons of African descent,
accounts shall be kept sufficiently accurate and in detail to show quantities and. amounts, and from whlom both property and such persons shall
have come, as a basis upon which compensation can be made in proper
cases; and tlhe several departments of this Government shall attend to and
perform their appropriate parts towards the execution of these orders.
By order of the President:
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
And on the 25th of July he issued the following procla