Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh are now in insurrection and rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil authority of the United States is obstructed so that the provisions of the "Act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay the interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved August 5, 1861, can not be peaceably executed; and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real estate under the act last aforesaid lying within the States and parts of States as aforesaid, together with a penalty of 50 per centum of said taxes, shall be a lien upon the tracts or lots of the same, severally charged, till paid. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. [SEAL.] Done at the city of Washington, this first day of July, A.D. 1862, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-sixth. By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary of State. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, JULY 1, 1862. TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: thanks of Congress for his eminent services in organizing the flotilla on the western waters, and for his gallantry at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, and at various other places, whilst in command of the naval forces, embracing a period of nearly ten months. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 1, 1862. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MCCLELLAN. WASHINGTON, JULY 1, 1862. 3.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN: It is impossible to reinforce you for your present emergency. If we had a million of men, we could not get them to you in time. We have not the men to send. If you are not strong enough to face the enemy, you must find a place of security, and wait, rest, and repair. Maintain your ground if you can, but save the army at all events, even if you fall back to Fort Monroe. We still have strength enough in the country, and will bring it out. A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL G. B. MCCLELLAN. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAJOR-GENERAL MCCLELLAN: July 2, 1862. Your despatch of Tuesday morning induces me to hope your army is having some rest. In this hope allow me to reason with you a moment. When you ask for 50,000 men to be promptly sent you, you surely labor under some gross mistake of fact. Recently you sent papers showing your disposal of forces made last spring for the defense of Washington, and advising a return to that plan. I find it included in and about Washington 75,000 men. Now, please be assured I have not men enough to fill that very plan by 15,000. All of Frémont's in the valley, all of Banks's, all of McDowell's not with you, and all in Washington, taken together, do not exceed, if they reach, 60,000. With Wool and Dix added to those mentioned, I have not, outside of your army, 75,000 men east of the mountains. Thus the idea of sending you 50,000, or any other considerable force, promptly, is simply absurd. If, in your frequent mention of responsibility, you have the impression that I blame you for not doing more than you can, please be relieved of such impression. I only beg that in like manner you will not ask impossibilities of me. If you think you are not strong enough to take Richmond just now, I do not ask you to try just now. Save the army, material and personal, and I will the offensive again as fast as I can. The governors of eighteen States offer me a new levy of 300,000, which I accept. strengthen it for A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL H. W. HALLECK. WASHINGTON, D. C. July 2, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: Your several despatches of yesterday to Secretary of War and myself received. I did say, and now repeat, I would be exceedingly glad for some reinforcements from you. Still do not send a man if in your judgment it will endanger any point you deem important to hold, or will force you to give up or weaken or delay the Chattanooga expedition. Please tell me could you not make me a flying visit for consultation without endangering the service in your department. A. LINCOLN. MESSAGE TO THE SENATE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 2, 1862. TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES: I herewith return to your honorable body, in which it originated, an act entitled "An act to provide for additional medical officers of the volunteer service," without my approval. My reason for so doing is that I have approved an act of the same title passed by Congress after the passage of the one first mentioned for the express purpose of correcting errors in and superseding the same, as I am informed. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. CIRCULAR LETTER TO THE GOVERNORS. (Private and Confidential.) WAR DEPARTMENT, July 3, 1862. 10.30 A.M. GOVERNOR WASHBURN, Maine [and other governors] I should not want the half of 300,000 new troops if I could have them now. If I had 50,000 additional troops here now, I believe I could substantially close the war in two weeks. But time is everything, and if I get 50,000 new men in a month, I shall have lost 20,000 old ones during the same month, having gained only 30,000, with the difference between old and new troops still against me. The quicker you send, the fewer you will have to send. Time is everything. Please act in view of this. The enemy having given up Corinth, it is not wonderful that he is thereby enabled to check us for a time at Richmond. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO GOVERNOR WASHBURN. (Private and Confidential.) WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3, 1862. 10.30 A.M. GOVERNOR WASHBURN, Augusta, Me. MY DEAR SIR:-I should not want the half of 300,000 new troops if I could have them now. If I had 50,000 additional troops here now I believe I could substantially close the war in two weeks. But time is everything, and if I get 50,000 new men in a month I shall have lost 20,000 old ones during the same month, having gained only 30,000, with the |