Abraham Lincoln: “Complaint has been made to the President of the United States that certain persons within the State of Virginia, in…”

“Complaint has been made to the President of the United States that certain persons within the State of Virginia, in places occupied by the forces of the United States, claim to be incumbents of civil offices--State, county, and municipal--by alleged authority from the Commonwealth of Virginia, in disregard and violation of the 'declaration of the people of Virginia represented in convention at the city of Wheeling, Thursday, June 13, 1861,' and of the ordinances of said convention, and of the acts of the general assembly held by authority of said convention.”