What shall be done with the confiscated Negroes? [microform] : the question discussed and a policy proposed in a letter to Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Gen. Winfield Scott, Hon. William H. Seward, Rt. Rev. Archbishop Hughes, Hon, John J. Crittenden, Hon, Edward Everett, Hon. Joseph Holt, Hon Daniel S. Dickinson, Hon. Horace Greeley, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, Gen. John C. Fremont, and all other patriots /
Scoville, Joseph Alfred,1815-1864.
Lincoln, Abraham,1809-1865.
[U.S. : s.n.,
1862?]
Signed (p. 15): "Manhattan."
"There are three ways by which we may dispose of him, viz.: 1. we may re-enslave him; 2. we may apprentice him; 3. we may make him wholly free at once. The first cannot be done. ... Between the second and the third, I conscientiously believe it will be better to apprentice the confiscated Negro than to make him wholly free at once. I propose in this letter to develop a plan for apprenticing the Negro, differing wholly from the British West Indian method ... ." Cf. p. 4.
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