President Lincoln meets with a "Committee of colored men," to whom he proposes a program by which blacks living in America would voluntarily relocate to a Central American country. Lincoln explains, "You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but, this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word we suffer on each side." New York Daily Tribune (NY), 15 August 1862, 1:4-5; Evening Star (Washington, DC), 15 August 1862, 2:3-4; Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes, 14 August 1862, CW, 5:370-75.

Telegraphs officer in charge of Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio: "It is believed that a Dr. J. J. Williams is a prisoner in your charge, and if so, tell him his wife is here, and allow him to Telegraph to her." Abraham Lincoln to Henry M. Lazella, 14 August 1862, CW, 5:376.