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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : Francis D. Tandy Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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uly, A. LINCOLN. Letter to I. N. Morris Executive Mansion, August 26, 1863. Dear Sir: Your note asking what you wereto understand, was received yesterday. Mon-day morning I sent the papers to the Secretaryof the Interior, with an indorsement that my im-pression of the law was not changed, and that Idesired him to take up the case and do his dutyaccording to his view of the law. Yesterday Isaid the same thing to him verbally. Now, my understanding is that the law has notassigned me, specifically, any duty in the case,but has assigned it to the Secretary of the In-terior. It may be my general duty to direct himto act—which I have performed. When heshall have acted, if his action is not satisfactory,there may or may not be an appeal to me. Itis a point I have not examined; but if it be shownthat the law gives such appeal, I shall not hesi-tate to entertain it when presented. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. Major-General Winfield S. Hancock Wood Engraving after a Photograph by Gurney £sf Son.
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1863) Letter to Conkling 95 Letter to James C. Conkling * Executive Mansion, August 26, 1863. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter invitingme to attend a mass-meeting of un-conditional Union men, to be held atthe capital of Illinois on the 3d day of Septem-ber has been received. It would be very agree-able to me to thus meet my old friends at myown home, but I cannot just now be absent fromhere so long as a visit there would require. The meeting is to be of all those who main-tain unconditional devotion to the Union; andI am sure my old political friends will thankme for tendering, as I do, the nations gratitudeto those and other noble men whom no partizanmalice or partizan hope can make false to thenations life. There are those who are dissatisfied with me. 1 On June 17, 1863, a meeting had been held in Springfieldwith the idea of forming a Northwestern Confederacy. TheRepublicans prepared to hold there in the beginning of Septem-ber the greatest mass meeting of the campaign. They werevery anxio

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