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Title: The Civil War : the national view
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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G. Curtln. GeneralMcClellan publicly endorsed Woodward. Curtln was re-elected, and the Supreme Court of the State, its member-ship full now by the election of Daniel Agnew in place ofWoodward, resigned, reversed Its decision on the uncon-stitutionality of the conscription act. In Ohio, In Indiana,In Illinois, the Peace Party was making exhaustive effortsto defeat the administration. The Republicans of Illinois,remembering the birthday of their party and its founders,greatly desired that Lincoln should come home and addressthe people of the State at a great mass meeting. The in-vitation, however agreeable to Lincolns wishes, could notbe accepted but he wrote a letter which should be read to themeeting. In this letter he stated anew the national cause,reviewed the state of public affairs, and uttered the doctrinesof the party upon which he relied for support in carryingon the war. The Peace Party and the Copperheads n M K I HAiK Ol XHKSIUIUJ.Miss I ■^ Tom I s MAJ OEM u S GR*NT U S V^i
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Maj) of the siege ot Vicksbiirg, Mississipjii. from a print in the MapDi-insioH, Library of Congress, Jfashington. THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR 337 had repudiated the Emancipation Proclamation; the arm-ing of soldiers for national defense, and the general policyof the administration. Lincoln met these objectors face toface. He wrote: Your letters, inviting me to attend a mass meeting ofunconditional Union men, to be held at the capital of Illi-nois on the 3d day of September, has been received. Itwould be very agreeable to me to thus meet my old friendsat my own home, but I cannot just now be absent from hereso long as a visit there would require. The meeting is to be of all those who maintain uncon-ditional devotion to the Union, and I am sure my old poli-tical friends will thank me for tendering, as I do, the Na-tions gratitude to those other noble men whom no partisanmalice or partisan hope can make false to the Nations life. There are those who are dissatisfied with me. To suchI woul

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