Military Successes--Favorable Elections--Emancipation Policy-- Letter to Manchester (Eng.) Workingmen--Proclamation for a National Fast--Letter to Erastus Corning--Letter to a Committee on Recalling Vallandigham 226 CHAPTER XVI. LETTERS AND SPEECHES. Speech at Washington--Letter to Gen. Grant--Thanksgiving Proclamation--Letter Concerning the Emancipation Proclamation-- Proclamation for Annual Thanksgiving--Dedicatory Speech at Gettysburg 242 CHAPTER XVII. THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Organization of the House--Different Opinions as to Reconstruction--Provisions for Pardon of Rebels--President’s Proclamation of Pardon--Annual Message--Explanatory Proclamation 263 CHAPTER XVIII. PROGRESS. President’s Speech at Washington--Speech to a New York Committee--Speech in Baltimore--Letter to a Kentuckian-- Employment of Colored Troops--Davis’ Threat--General Order-- President’s Order on the Subject 275 CHAPTER XIX. RENOMINATED. Lieut. Gen. Grant--His Military Record--Continued Movements-- Correspondence with the President--Across the Rapidan-- Richmond Invested--President’s Letter to a Grant Meeting-- Meeting of Republican National Convention--The Platform-- The Nomination--Mr. Lincoln’s Reply to the Committee of Notification--Remarks to Union League Committee--Speech at a Serenade--Speech to Ohio Troops 285 CHAPTER XX. RECONSTRUCTION. President’s Speech at Philadelphia--Philadelphia Fair-- Correspondence with Committee of National Convention-- Proclamation of Martial Law in Kentucky--Question of Reconstruction--President’s Proclamation on the Subject-- Congressional Plan 298 CHAPTER XXI. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864. Proclamation for a Fast--Speech to Soldiers--Another Speech-- “To Whom it may Concern”--Chicago Convention--Opposition Embarrassed--Resolution No. 2--McClellan’s Acceptance-- Capture of the Mobile Forts and Atlanta--Proclamation for Thanksgiving--Remarks on Employment of Negro Soldiers-- Address to Loyal Marylanders 314 CHAPTER XXII. RE-ELECTED Presidential Campaign of 1864--Fremont’s Withdrawal--Wade and Davis--Peace and War Democrats--Rebel Sympathizers-- October Election--Result of Presidential Election--Speech to Pennsylvanians--Speech at a Serenade--Letter to a Soldier’s Mother--Opening of Congress--Last Annual Message 325 CHAPTER XXIII. TIGHTENING THE LINES.