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.

578 THE LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND
our wishes, and to express the hope that, in any event, you will afford us
the opportunity of tendering them in person before you leave the Falls.
We remain, very respectfully, &c.,
C. C. CLAY, JR.
J. P. HOLCOMBE.
P. S.-It is proper to state that Mr. Thompson is not here, and has
not been staying with us since our sojourn in Canada.
Mr. Greeley thereupon wrote as follows:INTERNATIONAL HOTL, NIAGARA FALL, N. Y., July 18, 1864.
GENTLEMEN:-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours
of this date by the hand of Mr. W. 0. Jewett. The state of facts therein
l)resented beilg materially different from that which was understood to
exist by the President when he intrusted me with the safe-conduct required, it seems to me on every account advisable that I should communicate with him by telegraph, and solicit fresh instructions, which I shall
at once proceed to do.
I hope to be able to transmit the result this afternoon, and at all events
I shall do so at the earliest moment.
Yours truly, HORAcE GREELEY.
To Messrs. CLEMENT C. CLAY and JAMES P. HOLOOMBE, Clifton House,. W.
This letter was thus acknowledged:CLIrTON Housi NIAARBA FALLS, July 18, 1864.
To Hon. H. GREELEY, Niagara Falls, N. Y.:
SIR:-We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of
this date by the hands of Colonel Jewett, and will await the further
answer which you propose to send to us.
We are, very respectfully, &c.,
(Signed) C. C. CLAY, JR.
JAMES P. HOLOOMBE.
Mr. Greeley accordingly sent the following telegram at
once to the President at WVashington:INDEPENDENT TELEGRAPH LIrN, NIAGARA FALLS, July 18, 1864.
lon. AnBiAIIAm LINCOLN, President:
I have communicated with the gentlemen in question, and do not find
them so clIllowered as I was previously assured. They say that "we
are, however, in the confidential employment of our Government, and
entirely familiar with its wishes and opinions on that subject, and we fee'
authorized to declare that, if the circumstances disclosed in this correspond