Green Adams to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, December 31, 1862, Washington D.C.

    Source citation
    Green Adams to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, December 31, 1862 (Emancipation Proclamation), Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html.
    Author (from)
    Green Adams
    Type
    Letter
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Transcribed by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
    Adapted by John Osborne, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following transcript has been adapted from the Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress.
    Office of the Auditor of the Treasury
     
    For the Post Office Department,
     
    Decr 31st 1862.
     
    For God,s sake, stand by the proclamation--  No taking back, show the people you intend to stand firm by any policy you may adopt & the people will stand by you
     
    The Good men of Kentucky will stand by you in every effort to crush the rebellion, and if you will let the political jugglers know they have to toe the mark, they will sink & come too
     
    Green Adams
    How to Cite This Page: "Green Adams to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, December 31, 1862, Washington D.C.," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/42181.