A. Lincoln: for all
150 years ago today President Lincoln called for 500,000 more troops – volunteers to be supplemented by a draft to fill quotas. He also seemed to be encouraging peace missions – as long as the terms were restoration of the Union and the extermination of slavery:
From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Seven:
ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING TERMS OF PEACE.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, July 18, 1864.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery, and which comes by and with an authority that can control the armies now at war against the United States, will be received and considered by the Executive Government of the United States, and will be met by liberal terms on other substantial and collateral points; and the bearer or bearers thereof shall have safe conduct both ways.
A. LINCOLN.
