The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEOEMBEB 17.

Tea principal topic on which President LlN-
cour addresses Congress in the midst of s great
war is Negro Emancipation. And yet we are told

this war has nothing to do with Slavery.
There is a short and easy way of wholly missing
the meaning of the plan which Mr. LINCOLN re-
commends to Congress. It is the way which was
followed by those who found their account in mis-
representing the Proclamation of Emancipation. It
consists in taking separately parts of a policy
which are the complement each of the other. The
Proclamation offered liberty only to the slaves
of rebels, ergo, Mr. LINOOLN was the protector
of slavery in the loyal States. To affirm this
it was only necessary to shut the eyes to the feet
that the PRISIDENT had proposed another
and milder plan, a project of pecuniary
compensation for the redemption of the slaves
in those States which, since they were loyal,

he could not include in a war meaa ure. It was

thus that some among us tried to persuade them:

selves and others that the man who in the short

space of eighteen months had abolished slavery in
the District of Columbia, excluded it from the "Ter-
" ritories," made a treaty with England for the

suppression of the slave trade, and offered to co-ope-
rate with the State governments for the abolition
of servitude everywhere, was a prop and pillar of

slavery.

In making Ina present proposition to Congress,
Mr. LIICOLN, far from revoking any part of his

former policy, and nullifying the Proclamation of
September last, simply fulfils a pledge which

be gave then, that in the nazi seesion of
Congress he would recommend a measure offering
compensation to the loyal owners of slaves. We may
look solely at the PRESIDIST'S war measure of eman-
cipation, and call him, as some have done, *nester-
.

minator and an abettor of assassination; or we may
look solely at his projects of peaceful liberation,
and ask sceptically whether it is likely that this
great war will be terminated by a small bribe. Or,
again, we may, in the extravagance of candour,

look at the Pa ILSIDLICeB policy as a whole, and
regard him as he stands, extending with one hand
the sword and with the other the olive branch.
Whichever we do the fact remains the same, that
from his accession to office Mr. Liwtxnav has pur-
sued a course of action which is not the less con-

sistent and coherent because it is progressive.
Ilia amicable and belligerent methods of emanci•
pation are designed mutually to aid one another.
In his first communication to Congress on this
subject, one of the chief arguments by which he
recommended his plan of emancipation to the
Southern States was the certainty, foreseen by
all the world, that, in default of the adoption of
such a scheme, the progress of the war would
bring about the uncompensated liberation of slaves.
Hundreds of planters in Virginia, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana, have since learned
the significance of that warning. . .

The step which, in pursuance of his promise, he
now invites Congress to take, is to authorise the
Government to propose the following resolutions
to the various State Legislatures:

" First.—Every State wherein slavery now
" exists which shall abolish slavery at any time
" before January of the year 1900 shall receive
" the following compensation from the United
" States. Presidents of the United States shall
" deliver to every such State United States
" Bonds, bearing a certain interest, for each slave
" known to have been therein by the eighth
" United States census ; these bonds to be
" delivered to such State by instalments, or

4' in one parcel at completion of abolish-1
" meat, according as abolishment shall have been
" gradual or at one time. Any State introducing
" or tolerating slavery after having received these
" bonds shall refund the bonds and interest to the
" United States.

" Sccond.—All slaves who have acquired free-
" dom by the chances of war at any time before
" the end of the rebellion shall be for ever free.
4' Loyal owners will, however, receive composes-
" tion. Congress may appropriate money and
" provide for colonising free negroes, with their
" consent, at places outside the United States."
It is proposed that the articles of these reso-
lutions shall be so enacted as to become formal
amendment& of the Constitution. A vote of two-
thirds of each house of the Federal Congress and of
three-fourths of the State Legislature is, therefore,
to be made requisite for their adoption. By its
nature the proposed measure is "moiler to loyal States,
and to others which it is hoped may be induced
by its provisions to declare themselves so. It is a
promise that if any Slave State will return to the
Union, the slave-owners resident there shall not lose
the value of their slaves upon their emancipation.
The Slave States are now in a much better condition
to appreciate such wieder than they were a year ago.
It is one by which they might rapidly be regenerated,
and acquire the respect of the world. It is one
which should have great merits in the eyes of Euro-
peans, who believe in the superior advantages of
gradual emancipation. It is one which Mr. LlN-
cots is entitled to describe as just and generous;
it engages him more deeply in au Anti-slavery

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