January 23, 1864

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            <date value='1864-01-23'>Saturday, January 23, 1864.</date>
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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         <p>
Lincoln answers inquiry of Alpheus Lewis, cotton trader, regarding 
cases wherein owners of plantations might recognize freedom of slaves 
and hire them to cultivate land: "I should regard such cases with 
great favor, and should, as the principle, treat them precisely as I 
would treat the same number of free white people in the same relation 
and condition."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A300' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Alpheus Lewis</xref>, 23 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:145-46.</bibl>
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         <p>
Issues permit to Christopher F. Clay and Christopher F. Field, son 
and brother-in-law respectively of Cong. Clay (Ky.), to put their 
plantations into cultivation under system of free hired labor and 
protection of military authority of U.S.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A301' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Permit to Christopher F. Field and Christopher F. Clay</xref>, [23? January] 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:146-47.</bibl>
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         <p>
Transmits to Senate papers relative to modification of treaty with China.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln7;node=lincoln7%3A302' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Senate</xref>, 23 January 1864, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 7:147-48.</bibl>
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         <p>
Secures "a box at Grover's Theatre for benefit performance of Tom 
Taylor's 'The Ticket of Leave Man' on Saturday night, in aid of the 
Ladies' Soldiers' Relief Association."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington National Republican, 22 January 1864.</bibl>
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         <p>
Renomination of Lincoln unanimously recommended by Union Central 
Committee of New York.
<bibl default='NO'>Hardenbrook to Dana, 23 January 1864, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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         <p>
"<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s reception this afternoon was attended by an immense 
throng of citizens and sojourners."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 23 January 1864.</bibl>
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