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 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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CHAPTER XII.
ARBITRARY ARRESTS.-THE SUSPENSION OF THE WRIT OP
HABEAS CORPUS.-THE DRAFT.
AIBITRARY ARRESTS.-FIRST SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS.-AID
AND COMFORT TO TIlE REBELS.-EXECUTIVE ORDER ABOUT ARRESTS.
-APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSIONER ON ARRESTS.-OPPOSITION TO THE
GOVERNMENT.-TnE CASE OF VALLANDIGHAM.-GOVERNORI SEYMIOUR
ON VALLANDIGHAM.-PRESIDENT LrNOOLN ON ARTS.PREST. ESIDENT
LINCOLN ON MILITARY ARRESTS.-TnE PRESIDENT'S LETTER TO MR.
CORNING.-TnE PRESIDENT TO THE OHIO COMMITTEE.-TIIE PRESIDENT
ON VALLANDIGHAM'S CASE.-T[IE IIAB.E CORPUS SUSPENDED.PROCLAMATION CONCERNING ALIENS.-THE DRAFT.-THE NEW YORK
RIOTS.-LETTER TO GOVERNOR SEYMOUR.-TnE DRAFT RESUMED AND
COMPLETED.
AT the very outbreak of the rebellion, the Administration was compelled to face one of the most formidable
of the many difficulties which have embarrassed its
action. Long before the issue had been distinctly made
by the rebels in the Southern States, while, under the
protecting toleration of Mr. Buchanan's Administration,
the conspirators were making preparations for armed
resistance to the Government of the United States, evidences were not wanting that they relied upon the active
co-operation of men and parties in the Ntortllern States,
whose political sympathies had always been in harmony
with their principles and their action. As early as in
January, 1861, while the rebels were diligently and
actively collecting arms and other munitions of war, by
purchase in the Northern States, for the contest on which
they had resolved, Fernando Wood, then Mayor of New
York, had apologized to Senator Toombs, of Georgia, for
the seizure by the police of New York of " arms intended
for and consigned to the State of Georgia," and had
assured him that " if he had the power, he should summarily punish the authors of this illegal and unjustifiable