January 14, 1863

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            <date value='1863-01-14'>Wednesday, January 14, 1863.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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President informs House of Representatives that it would not be 
compatible with public interest to make known communications with New 
Granada (Colombia and Panama).
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               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A103' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives</xref>, 14 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:56-58.</bibl>
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Relative to practical advantages of Emancipation Proclamation he 
writes Gen. Dix at Fortress Monroe, Va.: "I therefore will thank you 
for your well considered opinion whether Fortress-Monroe, and 
York-Town, one or both, could not, in whole or in part, be garrisoned 
by colored troops, leaving the white forces now necessary at those 
places to be employed elsewhere."
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               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A102' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John A. Dix</xref>, 14 January 1863, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 6:56.</bibl>
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