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Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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e to thecomplicated and vexatious business of enrollmentand draft is indicated by the report of a committeeappointed by the Legislature of Rhode Island toconfer with him concerning the quota of that State.The committee said: The President at this point interrupted the committeeto say that coinplaints from several States had alreadybeen made to the same effect, and in one instance the sub-ject had been so earnestly pressed upon his attentionthat he had personally taken the pains to examine forhimself the formula which the Provost Marshal Generalhad adopted for the calculation and distribution of thequota for the different States, and had arrived at the con-clusion that it was impossible for any candid mind todoubt or question its entire fairness. The President fur-ther stated that the plan that had been adopted by theProvost Marshal General for the assignment of the re-spective quotas met his entire approval, and appearedto him to be the only one by which exact justice couldbe secured.
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BEAK-ADMIRAL SAMUEL F. DU PONT. THE LINCOLN-SEYMOUE COEKESPONDENGE 49 While the controversy between the Government chap. ii.and its opponents in regard to the enrollment andthe di-aft was going on, the President, disappointedand grieved at the peisistent misrepresentations ofhis views and his intentions by those of whom hethought better things were to be expected, feelingthat he was unable, by the power of logic or per-suasion, to induce the leaders of the Democraticparty to do him justice, or to cooperate with him inthe measures which he was convinced were for thepublic good, thought for a time of appealing directlyto the people of the United States in defense of theconduct of the Grovernment. He prepared a longand elaborate address, which he intended mostespecially for the consideration of the honest andpatriotic Democrats of the North, setting forth,with his inimitable clearness of statement, the ne-cessity of the draft, the substantial fairness of itspro^^sions, and the honesty an

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