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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The rebels used all means in their power to aid the
party from whose success they anticipated so nmu-ch advantage..Hood's movement, it was hoped, would ]lave
a political influence upon the election; and Earl y's advance was spoken of in Southern journals as a means of
assisting the counting of the ballots in Pennsylvania.
Along the Northern border, too, tile rebel agents, sent
thither on " detached service " by the Rebel Government,
were active, in movements intended to terrify and harass
the people. On the 19th of October, a party of them
made a raid into St. Albans, Vermont, robbing the banks
there, and making their escape across thle lines into Canada with their plunder, having killed one of the citizens
in their attack. Pursuit was made, and several of
the marauders were arrested in Canada. Pro(,ceedings
were commenced to procure their extradition, which were
not, however, brought to a close before the election. The
Government received information that this affair was but
one of a projected series, and that similar attempts would
be made all along the- frontier. More than this, there
were threats, followed by actual attempts, to set fire to
the principal Nortlhern cities, and there were not wanting
some signs of an inclination to renew the scenes of the
riots of the year before.
A very grave sensation was produced by the pullication of a report of Judge Advocate-General Holt, giving
conclusive proof of the existence of an organized secret
association at the North, controlled by prominent men in
the Democratic party, whose objects were the overthrow,
by revolution, of the Administration, in the interest of the,
rebellion. Some of the leaders were arrested and tried.
The Democratic presses had sneered at the whole affair as
one which was got up by the Government for political
effect. But when one of their leaders, being on parole
as he was being tried, ran away rather than meet the result, people began to be sensible of the danger they had
escaped.
So rife were threats of a revolution at the North, and
especially in New York City, if Mr. Lincoln were re