Abraham Lincoln said...

But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly...

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

The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...

He thought this measure was a very fitting if not an indispensable adjunct to the winding up of the great difficulty.