pendently and fully made up to such separation, I shall be glad for the property sought by her letter to be delivered to her upon her taking the oath of December 8, 1863. A. LINCOLN. MEMORANDUM FOR MRS. KEENAN EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 11, 1864. If Judge John C. Underwood will say in writing on this sheet that he personally knows Mrs. Keenan, and that he desires her and her little nephew to pass our lines and go to her father in Rockingham, Virginia, I will direct a pass to be given her accordingly. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAMS TO GENERAL B. F. BUTLER Major-General Butler, Fort Monroe, Virginia: Mrs. Lincoln is so unwell that I now think we will not make the contemplated trip this week. Will notify you in time. Will probably get a boat here, but will accept yours if necessary. Thanks for your kind interest in the case. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 12, 1864. Major-General Butler, Fort Monroe, Virginia: I am appealed to in behalf of Charles Crumblin [Crumpton] said to be under sen tence of death, to be executed at Norfolk tomorrow. Please ascertain whether there is any ground for a pardon, or even a respite, and anA. LINCOLN. swer me. EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 13, 1864. Major-General Butler, Fort Monroe, Virginia: Yours in regard to Charles Crumpton received. I have no more to say in the case. A. LINCOLN. LETTER TO GENERAL L. THOMAS EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 13, 1864. General: The President directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the thirtieth March, and to state in reply that Mr. Lewis has no authorization from him for any such purpose as you mention. He gave to Mr. Lewis a letter introducing him to you, at the request of some very respectable gentlemen from Kentucky, and here his responsibility for Mr. Lewis terminated. The President does not wish you to be hampered in the execution of your duties by any consideration of the letter given by himself to Mr. Lewis. I have the honor to be, General, your obedient servant, JOHN HAY, Major and A. A. G. *TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. G. MEADE EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 17, 1864. Major-General Meade, Army of Potomac: Private William Collins of Company B, of the Sixty-ninth New York Volunteers, has been convicted of desertion, and execution suspended as in numerous other cases. Now Captain O'Neill commanding the regiment, and nearly all its other regimental and company officers, petition for his full pardon and restoration to his company. Is there any good objection? A. LINCOLN. ADDRESS AT SANITARY FAIR IN BALTIMORE, L April 18, 1864 ADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Calling to mind that we are in Baltimore, we cannot fail to note that the world moves. Looking upon these many people assembled here to serve, as they best may, the soldiers of the Union, it occurs at once that three years ago the same soldiers could not so much as pass through Baltimore. The change from then till now is both great and gratifying. Blessings on the brave men who have wrought the change, and the fair women who strive to reward them for it! But Baltimore suggests more than could happen within Baltimore. The change within Baltimore is part only of a far wider change. When the war began, three years ago, neither party, nor any man, expected it would last till now. Each looked for the end, in some way, long ere to-day. Neither did any anticipate that domestic slavery would be much affected by the war. But here we are; the war has not ended, and slavery has been much affectedhow much needs not now to be recounted. So true is it that man proposes and God disposes. But we can see the past, though we may not claim to have directed it; and seeing it, in this case, we feel more hopeful and confident for the future. The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names-liberty and tyranny. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails to-day among us human creatures, even in the North, and all pro སཱ.. |