February 07, 1865

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1865-02-07'>Tuesday, February 7,
  1865.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p> President receives
  Cong. Colfax (Ind.) for talks about Hampton Roads Conference. <bibl default='NO'>Colfax to
  Lincoln, 8 February 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln
  Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Cabinet meets.
  "Very little before the Cabinet." <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President makes brief
  call on F. P. Blair, Sr. <bibl default='NO'>Blair to Lincoln, 8 February 1865, Robert Todd
  Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Interviews A. M. Laws regarding permit to trade in cotton. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A576' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:267-68.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> R. A.
  Gray, representing H. Jouette Gray of Harrisonburg, Va., calls on President
  relative to collecting ground rents. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A578' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to James Speed</xref>, 7 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:268.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes
  William Lloyd Garrison, antislavery leader and publisher, to thank him and
  group of donors for painting entitled "Watch Night-, or Waiting for the Hour." 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A573' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to William Lloyd Garrison</xref>, 7 February 1865,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:265-66.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> President
  Lincoln telegraphs Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn with the 120th Colored
  Infantry, Henderson, Kentucky, in response to reports that Glenn has been
  "forcing negroes into the Military service" using "tortur[e]...to extort their
  consent." Lincoln warns, "The like must not be done by you, or any one under
  you. You must not force negroes any more than white men." <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A574' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to John Glenn</xref>, 7 February 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:266.</bibl> 
         </p>
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