Abraham Lincoln - The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. VII (Chap. 2.25) lyrics

Telegram To General Steele. Executive Mansion, Washington, February 17, 1864. MAJOR-GENERAL STEELE, Little Rock, Arkansas: The day fixed by the convention for the election is probably the best, but you on the ground, and in consultation with gentlemen there, are to decide. I should have fixed no day for an election, presented no plan for reconstruction, had I known the convention was doing the same things. It is probably best that you merely a**ist the convention on their own plan, as to election day and all other matters I have already written and telegraphed this half a dozen times. A. LINCOLN.