MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNORS COMPRISING Executive Communications to the Legislature and Other WITH NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES Z. LINCOLN PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE VOLUME V 1857-1868 ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 1909 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year nineteen hundred and nine, BY SAMUEL S. KOENIG, SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, In trust for the benefit of the People of the said State, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. PREFACE. This volume, covering twelve years, includes the administrations of Governors King, Morgan, Fenton and the second administration of Governor Seymour. Some of the most significant events in American history are embraced in this volume. It records events leading up to the Civil War, numerous important historical matters relating to that great struggle, the election, administration and assassination of President Lincoln, the abolition of slavery, the readjustment of political and financial policies resulting from the war, and the Constitutional Convention of 1867. This volume also includes action by the Legislature and otherwise relating to the initiation of the project for a new capitol. [iii] 204548 |