as provided in said act between the said States and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States is unlawful and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed and notice thereof has been duly given by proclamation; and all cotton, tobacco, and other products, and all other goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, coming from any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, or proceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, without the license and permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, will together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, be forfeited to the United States. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this sec[SEAL.] ond day of April, A.D. 1863, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Secretary of State. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL HOOKER. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: April 3, 1863. Our plan is to pass Saturday night on the boat, go over from Aquia Creek to your camp Sunday morning, remain with you till Tuesday morning, and then return. Our party will probably not exceed six persons of all sorts. A. LINCOLN. OPINION ON HARBOR DEFENSE.1 April 4, 1863. On this general subject I respectfully refer Mr. to the Secretaries of War and Navy for conference and consultation. I have a single idea of my own about harbor defense. It is a steam ram, built so as to sacrifice nearly all capacity for carrying to those of speed and strength, so as to be able to split any vessel having hollow enough in her to carry supplies for a voyage of any distance. Such ram, of course, could not herself carry supplies for a voyage of considerable distance, and her business would be to guard a particular harbor as a bulldog guards his master's door. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. HEADQUARTERS ARMY POTOMAC, April 9, 1863. HON. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: Richmond Whig of the 8th has no telegraphic despatches from Charleston but has the following as editorial: "All thoughts are now centred upon Charleston. Official intelligence was made public early yesterday New York Herald, July 27, 1885. morning that the enemy's iron-clad fleet had attempted to cross the bar and failed, but later in the day it was announced that the gunboats and transports had succeeded in crossing and were at anchor. Our iron-clads lay between the forts quietly awaiting the attack. Further intelligence is looked for with eager anxiety. The Yankees have made no secret of this vast preparation for an attack on Charleston, and we may well anticipate a desperate conflict. At last the hour of trial has come for Charleston, the hour of deliverance or destruction, for no one believes the other alternative, surrender, possible. The heart of the whole country yearns toward the beleaguered city with intense solicitude, yet with hopes amounting to confidence. Charleston knows what is expected of her, and what is due to her fame, and to the relation she sustains to the cause. The devoted, the heroic, the great-hearted Beauregard is there, and he, too, knows what is expected of him and will not disappoint that expectation. We predict a Saragossa defense, and that if Charleston is taken it will be only a heap of ruins." The rebel pickets are reported as calling over to our pickets to-day that we had taken some rebel fort This is not very intelligible, and I think is entirely unreliable. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO OFFICER IN COMMAND AT NASHVILLE.1 EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, OFFICER IN COMMAND at Nashville, Tenn.: Is there a soldier by the name of John R. Minnick 1 President Lincoln sent many telegrams similar in form to this one: in order to avoid tiresome repetition the editor has omitted all those without especial interest. of Wynkoop's cavalry under sentence of death, by a court-martial or military commission, in Nashville? And if so what was his offense, and when is he to be executed? A. LINCOLN. If necessary let the execution be staid till I can be heard from again. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. HOOKER. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: Your letter by the hand of General Butterfield is received, and will be conformed to. The thing you dispense with would have been ready by mid-day If or, if you shall have left it, return to it, and hold it until further orders. Do not allow the enemy to erect new batteries or defenses on Morris Island. he has begun it, drive him out. I do not herein order you to renew the general attack. That is to depend on your own discretion or a further order. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL J. HOOKER. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14, 1863. 5.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: Would like to have a letter from you as soon as convenient. A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL D. HUNTER AND ADMIRAL S. F. DUPONT. EXECUTIVE Mansion, WashINGTON, April 14, 1863. GENERAL HUNTER AND ADMIRAL DUPONT: This is intended to clear up an apparent inconsistency between the recent order to continue operations before Charleston and the former one to remove to another point in a certain contingency. No censure upon you, or either of you, is intended. We still hope that by cordial and judicious co-operation you can take the batteries on Morris Island and Sullivan's Island and Fort Sumter. But whether you can or not, we wish the demonstration kept up for a time, for a collateral and very important object. We wish the attempt to be a real one, though not a desperate one, if it affords any considerable chance of success. But if prosecuted as a demonstration only, this must not become public, or the whole effect will be lost. Once again before Charleston, do not leave until further orders from here. Of course this is not intended to force you to leave unduly exposed Hilton Head or other near points in your charge. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. P. S.-Whoever receives this first, please send a copy to the other immediately. A. L. |