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.

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sas, and Arkansas were formed into a military district,
of which the colimmnd was assigned to General Curtis,
who was thoroughly in sympathy with the fiiends of immediate emancipation and the supporters of General
Fremont in his differences with the Government. He had
control of the National forces in his district, but Governor
Gamble did not give him command of the State militia.
The differences of political sentiment between the two
sections of the Union men of the State came thus to be
represented, to some extent, by two organized military
forces; and the contest between their respective partisans
continued to be waged with increasing bitterness, greatly
to the embarrassment of the Government at Washington,
and to the weakening of the Union cause. This continued
until the spring of 1863, when the President removed
General Curtis from his command, and appointed General
Schofield in his place. This gave rise to very vehement
remonstrances and protests, to one of which, sent by telegraph, the President made the following reply:Your dispatch of to-day is just received. It is very painful to me that
you, in Missouri, cannot, or will not, settle your factional quarrel among
yourselves. I have been tormented with it beyond endurance, for months,
by both sides. Neither side pays the least respect to my appeals to your
reason. I am now compelled to take hold of the case.
A. LINCOLN.
To General Schofield himself, the President soon after
addressed the following letter:EXECUTIVE MANIION, WAISnINGTON, May 27, 1868.
General J. M. SCHOFIELD:
DEAR SIR:-Having removed General Curtis and assigned you to the
command of the Department of the Missouri, I think it may be of soi.e
advantage to me to state to you why I did it. I did not remove Genera.
Curtis because of my full conviction that he had done wrong by commission or omission. I did it because of a conviction in my mind that the
Union men of Missouri, constituting, when united, a vast majority of the
people, have entered into a pestilent, factious quarrel, among themselves,
General Curtis, perhaps not of choice, being the lhead of one faction, and
Governor Gamble that of the other. After months of lhbor to reconcile
the difficulty, it seemled to grow worse and worse, until I felt it my duty
to break it up sonmehow, and as I could not remove G )vernor Gamble, I