EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, July 15, 1862.
Hon. SOLOMON FOOT,
President pro tempore of the Senate.
SIR: Please inform the Senate that I shall be obliged if they will postpone the adjournment at least one day beyond the time which I understand to be now fixed for it.
Your obedient servant,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
[The same message was addressed to Hon. Calusha A. Crow, Speaker of the House of Representatives.]
JULY 17, 1862.
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives:
Considering the bill for "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," and the joint resolution explanatory of said act as being substantially one, I have approved and signed both.
Before I was informed of the passage of the resolution I had prepared the draft of a message stating objections to the bill becoming a law, a copy of which draft is herewith transmitted.