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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between the United States and Canada, said commanders
are hereby directed to pursue them wherever they may
find refuge, and if captured, they are under no circumstances to be surrendered," &c., &c. This part of the
order was, however, at once disapproved by the Administration, and General Dix accordingly modified his
order so as to require that, before crossing tfle frontier, military commanders should report to him for
orders.
The prompt action of the Canadian Government, which
at once caused the rearrest of such of the raiders as
had not made their escape, and gave a cordial assistance
to the new proceedings which were begun with a view
to their extradition, tended somewhat to allay public
feeling. But it was deemed advisable to take some
measures of precaution along the frontier, and accordingly on the 17th of December an order was issued that
no person should be allowed to enter the United States
from a foreign country without a passport, except immigrants coming directly in by sea. This order was made
with especial reference to those coming into the United
States from the British Provinces, and the people of
Canada were excessively indignant at it, but found no
remedy.
Military affairs during this month made good progress.
The call which had been made in July for five hundred
thousand men, although it produced a good number of recruits, so that military operations had not suffered for lack
of re-enforcements, yet had been in great measure filled
by giving credits for men already put into the army or
the navy. Accordingly, on the 19th of December, the
President issued the following proclamation calling for
two hundred thousand more men:PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, by the act approved July 4, 1864, entitled "An act further to regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out of the
national forces and for other purposes," it is provided that the President
of the United States may, a.t his discretion, at any timne hereafter, call for
any number of men as volunteers for the respective ternms of one, two, or