It is due to this officer to state that he was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability having occurred in the discharge of his duties; and prior to his misfortune he bore the reputation of an efficient and correct officer, and subsequently has evinced a willingness to perform whatever duties were assigned him.
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It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other localities pay for the partiality shown her.
The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration.
Allow the bearer, F. P. Blair, sr., to pass our lines, go South, and return.
But that proclamation falls far short of what the amendment will be when fully consummated.
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