This week President Lincoln wrote to General Nathaniel Banks regarding the readmission of Louisiana into the Union. Mr. Lincoln shared his views saying "I would be glad for her to make a new Constitution regarding the emancipation proclamation. If these views can give impetus to action there, I shall be glad for you to use them prudently for that object."
He also responded to New York Horatio Seymour's issue saying that the government's draft law was unconstitutional and the cause of the recent New York City draft riots. Mr. Lincoln told the governor that the war "drives every able body man he can reach into his ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter pen. My purpose is to be just and constitutional and yet practical."
Mr. Lincoln also posed at the photography studio of Alexander and James Gardner. The commander-in-chief had met Alexander Gardner before as he had posed for him in Sharpsburg, Maryland in October 1862 following the battle at Antietam Creek. Mr. Lincoln and I had been posed together in one of those photographs while the president was meeting with General McClellan.
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