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lence that the President was compelled to explain to the border States, and to his conservative friends, that the proclamation had become a necessity to prevent the radicals from openly embarrassing the government in the conduct of the war. Governor Andrews, of Massachusetts, had begun earnestly to demand the privilege to fire on the enemy's magazine, by which he was supposed to mean an explosion throughout the South of negro insurrection. The Massachusetts convention had not voted a resolutio(i. e. negro men) thus at their command, and for the most part ready and willing for their service, might as well be employed as their own, so far as they would go toward filling up the ranks of the armies east and west. In January, 1863, Governor Andrews, of Massachusetts, was authorized to raise regiments of negroes. In March, George L. Thomas, adjutant-general, was sent West to organize the colored fugitives into military commands. General Prentiss formed two regiments at Helena; Genera