MESSAGES, DESPATCHES, ETC., ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Message to the Senate on Canadian Boundary Message to Congress on London Industrial Exhibition. July 16, 1861 Reply to the Tycoon of Japan on Opening Letter to the Viceroy of Egypt on His Punish- ment of Persecutors of a Missionary Agent. Message to Congress on Treaty with Great Britain to Suppress Slave Trade. June 10, Message to the House of Representatives on Proclamation of Retaliation for Refusal of Port Privileges to American War Vessels Abroad. MESSAGES ON FINANCIAL, INDIAN, AND ADMINIS- Message to the Senate on Act to Permit Circu- lation of Bank-Notes of Small Denominations in the District of Columbia. June 23, 1862 Message to the Senate on the Indian Massacre in Minnesota. December 11, 1862 Message to Congress on Issue of United States Message to Congress on Electoral Count. Feb- PREFACE THE present volume contains the state papers of President Lincoln which are not specifically addressed to an individual person in his proper name. Papers so addressed will be found in Letters, Volumes VII, VIII, and IX of the present edition, entered under the names of the addressees, which are arranged in alphabetical order. State papers relating to military and civil appointments, public congratulations, etc., will be found in LETTERS, listed under the names of the persons to whom they specifically refer. Documents issued by members of the Cabinet or other officials are included among the state papers when they convey the President's instructions or express his opinions. A number of state papers have been excluded from the present edition because their subjectmatter is of no historical importance, their style. does not express Lincoln's personality, and even the fact of their existence gives no indication of executive ability beyond the perfunctory performance of routine duties. Such are messages to Congress transmitting documents which had been requested by that body, executive action, as required by the constitution, on acts of Congress, official endorsements of the reports and findings of commissions, etc., in whose labors the President had no part, formal receptions of foreign ministers, etc. In certain instances where xi |