 When the members of his cabinet assembled for one of their Tuesday afternoon meetings, they found Lincoln asking each of them to sign, without knowing what it said, the back of a folded over and sealed document. What Lincoln had written that morning, what they could not see, and what he was asking them to endorse sight unseen by placing their signatures on it, was this statement. This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly unlikely that this administration will be re-elected.