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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Vice Presidents: Andrew Johnson; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources
As was originally stated in the Richmond corres pondence of the Advertiser, while Mr. Lincoln was in that city he was approached by Judge Campbell and other members of that rebel clique, with requests that the rebel State Legislature of Virginia be permitted to assemble at Richmond in order to deliberate upon the question of withdrawing the State from the confederacy and returningit to the Union. This Mr. Lincoln refused, in express terms, to allow. _after he left Richmond, and before he returned to Washington, however, he ordered General Weitzel to allow. The persons who call themselves the Virginia Legislature to convene in Richmond for the sole purpose of withdrawing the Virginia troups from the rebel army. The surren der of the whole army of General Ime induced Mr. Lincoln to recall this order, which he did on the af ternoon of Sunday, April 9th, or very early on the morning of Monday, April loth.
Immediately thereafter be requested the presence of Governor Pierpoint, the loyal Governor of Vir ginia, at Washington. The Governor reached that city on the morning of Tuesday, the 11th. That afternoon a long Cabinet conference was held, at which audience was given to Governor Peirpoint. The question how the proper practical relations of Virginia to the Union could be restored, was taken up and discussed at length. The practical conclusion was reached that, so for at least as the Executive was concerned Virginia was not then out of the Union; and that so far, again, as the Executive was concerned, the legitimate representatives of'_the State authority are Governor Peirpoint and the handful of gentlemen constituting the loyal Legislature. In relnaugurating the national authority. Mr. Lin coln had said, We must begin with, and mould from.
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