The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 433
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UNION AUTHORITIES.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 21, 1862.
Governor CURTIN,
Harrisburg, Pa.:
The time will not be extended to raise a regiment of Germans and
Irish. Bounties will not be paid after the date specified in the order
of the Department.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 21, 1862.
Governor PEIRPOINT,
Wheeling, Va.:
You are authorized to receive the four or five companies of cavalry
to fill up the Third Virginia Regiment, and as many more cavalry as
you can raise within thirty days.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, August 22, 1862.
Hon. HORACE GREELEY:
DEAR SIR: I have just read yours of the 19th addressed to myself
through the New York Tribune. * If there be in it any statements or
assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now
and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I
may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against
them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone,
I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always
supposed to be right.
As to the policy I "seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not
meant to leave any one in doubt.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under
the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored,
the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be
those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same
time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who
would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy
slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this
struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy
slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would
do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it;
and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I
would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race,
I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I
forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I
shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause,
and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the
cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I
shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
' Published in the New York Tribune of August 20, 1862.
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