Abraham Lincoln said...

of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indic...

while I can not order as within requested, allow me to say that it is my wish for you to relieve the people from all bur...

But that proclamation falls far short of what the amendment will be when fully consummated.

And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.