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which I will submit in outline:

"A military governor to be appointed, who shall have command of
all the troops in the State; or the department commander be authorized
to assume, by virtue of his command, the function of military
governor, which naturally devolves upon him.

"The military governor to declare the Constitution and laws of the
State in force immediately preceding the pretended Act of Secession
(so far as the same are not inconsistent with the Constitution and
laws of the United States and the war proclamations of the President)
to be still in force.

"To make provisional appointments of justices of the peace, sheriffs,
and such other inferior officers as the State laws empower the
governor to appoint, to serve until the organization of a civil
government.

"To order an enrolment of all electors who may take the President's
amnesty oath.

"As soon as this enrolment shall be completed, to call an election
for delegates to a State convention. The qualifications of voters
and candidates to be those prescribed by the State laws, and that
they shall take the amnesty oath. All acts of the convention to
be submitted to the people, for their ratification or rejection,
at the same time with the election of governor and members of the
legislature, which would be ordered by the convention.

"I would confidently expect a convention, so chosen, to repudiate
the doctrine of secession, abolish slavery, and fully restore the
State to its practical constitutional relations to the Government
of the United States. The people are now ripe for such action.
They only ask to know what the government desires them to do, and
how they are to do it.

"If, however, they should fail to do this, I would regard them as
having violated their oaths, would dissolve the convention, and
hold the State under military government until the people should
come to their senses. I would have a lawful popular government or
a military government--the latter being a necessary substitute in
the absence of the former.

"I am willing to discharge, to the best of my ability, any duty
which may properly devolve upon me. Yet if a policy so opposed to
my views as that proposed by Mr. Chase is to be adopted, I respectfully
suggest that I am not the proper person to carry it out.

"If, however, after knowing my views fully, it be desired that I
execute the President's wishes, would it not be well for me to have
a personal interview with hi