982 Series III Volume IV- Serial 125 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports
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In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the national authority on the part of the insurgents as the only indispensable condition to ending the war on the part of the Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that "while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. " If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.
In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say that the war will cease on the part of the Government whenever it shall have ceased on the part of those who began it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Table showing the aggregate votes in the States named at the Presidential elections, respectively, in 1860 and 1864.
State. 1860. 1864.
California 118,840 a 110,000
Connecticut 77,246 86,616
Delaware 16,039 16,924
Illinois 329,693 348,235
Indiana 272,143 280,645
Iowa 128,331 143,331
Kentucky 146,216 a 91,300
Maine 97,918 115,141
Maryland 92,502 72,703
Massachusetts 169,533 175,487
Michigan 154,747 162,413
Minnesota 34,799 42,534
Missouri 165,538 a 90,000
New Hampshire 65,953 69,111
New Jersey 121,125 128,680
New York 675,156 730,664
Ohio 442,441 470,745
Oregon 14,410 b 14,410
Pennsylvania 476,442 572,697
Rhode Island 19,931 22, 187
Vermont 42,844 55,811
West Virginia 46,195 33,874
Wisconsin 152, 180 148,513
3,870,222 3,982,011
Kansas ......... 17,234
Newada ......... 16,528
33,762
3,982,011
Total ......... 4,015,773
3,870,222
Net increase ......... 145,551
a Nearly
b Estimated.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
ARMY OF THE JAMES.In the Field, Va., December 7, 1864.
Major-General SCHENCK,
Committee on Military Affairs,
House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.:
GENERAL: At your request, in view of the conversation which was had between us upon the necessity of reorganizing the Army, I will
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