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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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g it to the public, assuring him that, in my opinion, it would tend greatly to allay public excitement and to preserve the peace of the State. On my return by appointment, two days afterwards, the President wrote in the presence of Hop. J. F. Crittenden and myself, and handed me the following paper. It bears all the marks of the characteristic indirectness of President Lincoln's mind. He accounted for the absence of his signature by saying that he did not intend to write a proclamation," but to give me a paper on which I could base my statements of his policy, and which would be my evidence hereafter, if any difference should arise relative to that policy; and he appealed to Mr. Crittenden, who was present, to identify the paper in any way that he thought proper. This was done by the latter gentleman subjoining his initials. The following is the paper referred to: "It is my duty; as I conceive, to suppress an insurrection existing within the United States I wish to do