21, 1862, prohibiting the exportation from the United States of arms, ammunition, or munitions of war, under which the commandants of departments were, by order of the Secretary of War dated May 13, 1863, directed to prohibit the purchase and sale, for exportation from the United States, of all horses and mules within their respective commands, and to take and appropriate for the use of the United States any horses, mules, and live stock designed for exportation, be so far modified thau any arms heretofore imported into the United States may be re-exported to the place of original shipment, and that any live stock raised in any State or Territory bounded by the Pacific Ocean may be exported from any port of such State or Territory. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO J. SEGAR. War Department, WashinGTON, D. C., HON. JOSEPH SEGAR, Fort Monroe, Va.: I have just seen your despatch to the Secretary of War, who is absent. I also send a despatch from Major Hayner of the 3d showing that he had notice of my order, and stating that the people were jubilant over it, as a victory over the Government extorted by fear, and that he had already collected about $4000 of the money. If he has proceeded since, I shall hold him accountable for his contumacy. On the contrary, no dollar shall be refunded by my order until it shall appear that my act in the case has been accepted in the right spirit. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO MRS. LINCOLN. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., MRS. A. LINCOLN, Manchester, Vt.: All well and no news except that General Burnside has Knoxville, Tenn. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO SECRETARY STANTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, HON. SECRETARY OF WAR, Bedford, Pa.: Burnside has Kingston and Knoxville, and drove the enemy across the river at Loudon, the enemy destroying the bridge there; captured some stores and one or two trains; very little fighting; few wounded and none killed. No other news of consequence. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO F. C. SHERMAN AND J. S. HAYES. it Yours of August 29 just received. I suppose was intended by Congress that this government should execute the act in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. It is, however, within the range of practical convenience to confer with the governments of States, while it is quite beyond that range to have correspondence on the subject with counties and cities. They are too numerous. As instances, I have corresponded with Governor Seymour, but not with Mayor Opdyke; with Governor Curtin, but not with Mayor Henry. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR JONHSON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, HON. ANDREW JOHNSON, Nashville, Tenn.: Despatch of yesterday just received. I shall try to find the paper you mention and carefully consider it. In the meantime let me urge that you do your utmost to get every man you can, black and white, under arms at the very earliest moment, to guard roads, bridges, and trains, allowing all the better trained soldiers to go forward to Rosecrans. Of course I mean for you to act in co-coperation with and not independently of, the military authorities. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. Executive Mansion, WashINGTON, MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Warrenton, Va.: It would be a generous thing to give General Wheaton a leave of absence for ten or fifteen days, and if you can do so without injury to the service, please do it. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL WHEATON. WASHINGTON, D. C., September 10, 1863. GENERAL WHEATON, Army of Potomac: Yesterday at the instance of Mr. Blair, senator, I telegraphed General Meade asking him to grant you a leave of absence, to which he replied that you had not applied for such leave, and that you can have it when you do apply. I suppose it is proper for you to know this. A. LINCOLN. TO GOVERNOR JOHNSON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, HON. ANDREW JOHNSON. MY DEAR SIR:-All Tennessee is now clear of armed insurrectionists. You need not to be reminded that it is the nick of time for reinaugurating a loyal State government. Not a moment should be lost. You and the co-operating friends there can better judge of the ways and means than can be judged by any here. I only offer a few suggestions. The reinauguration must not be such as to give control of the State and its representation in Congress to the enemies of the Union, driving its friends there into political exile. The whole struggle for Tennessee will have been profitless to both State and nation if it so ends that Governor Johnson is put down and Governor Harris put up. It must not be so. You must have it otherwise. Let the reconstruction be the work of such men only as can be trusted for the Union. Exclude all others, and trust that your government so organized will be recognized here as being the one of republican form to be guaranteed to the State, and to be protected against invasion and domestic violence. It is something on the question of time to remember that it cannot be known who is next to occupy the position I now hold, nor what he will do. I see that you have declared in favor of emancipation in Tennessee, for which may God bless you. Get emancipation into your new State government-constitution— and there will be no such word as fail for your case. The raising of colored troops, I think, will greatly help every way. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL A. E. BURNSIDE. WASHINGTON, September 11, 1863. 11.30 A.M. MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Cumberland Gap: Yours received. A thousand thanks for the late successes you have given us. We cannot allow you to resign until things shall be a little more settled in East Tennessee. If then, purely on your own account, you wish to resign, we will not further refuse you. A. LINCOLN. |