Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-07

WASHINGTON, March The President to day
transmitted 10 Congress, the following message:
Fellow citizens of the Senate and House Of
Representatives: | recommend the adoption OF
ajoint resolution by your honorable bodies, which
shall he substantially as follows
Rcsoired, That the United States ought 10 CO
operate with any State which may adopta grad
ual adjustment of slavery. and giving TO such
State pecuniary aid. e. he used by such State in
its discretion: TO compensate for the inconvenien-
ces, public and private. produced by such change
of system. Ii the proposition contained in the
reso. ution, does not meet the approval of Con
gress and the country, there is the end, but ii 1t
does command such approval deem is Of i'm
portance that the States and people Immediately
interested should he ut distinctly notified OF
the fact SO that they may begin 10 consider wheth
er To accept or reject il. The Federal Govern
ment would find its highest interest in such a
measure of the most efficient measures of
sell-preservation. The leaders of the existing in
surrection. entertain the hope that the Govern
men, will be ultimately be forced to acknowledge
the independence of some part of the disafected
region and that all the slave States north of such
parts will then say. the Union for which we have
struggled being already gone, we now choose to
go with them To deprive the m Of this hope. sub
stantally ends the rebellion, and the initiation of
emancipation completely deprives them of it as
to all the States initiating it,
The point is not that all the States tolerating
slavery would very soon. il at all, initiate eman
cipation. but that while the offer is equally made
to all, the more Northern shall by such initiation
make il certain TO the more Southern that in no
event shall the former join the latter in their pro-
posed confederacy, say initiation. because in
nv judgment gradual and not sudden emancipa-
ton is better for all In the mere financial pc
cuniary view any member of Congress, with the
census tables and treasury reports before him.
can readily see for himself how very soon the
current expenditures of the war would purchase.
at fair valuation, all the slaves in any named
State. Such proposition on the part of the Gen.
era Government sets up no claim or right by
Federal authority to interfere with slavery within
State lmts-reierring as il does the absolute
control of the subject in each case to the State
and the people Immediately interested. Ii il
proposed as a matter perfectly free choice with
them.
In the annual message last December / thought
fit to say that the Union must be preserved and
hence all indispensable means must be employed
| said this not hastily but deliberately. War has
been and continues to be an indispensable means
to this end. practical acknowledgment of the
national authority would render the war unneces-
sary, and it would at once cease. Ii. however
resistance continues, the war must continue and
il is impossible 20 foresee all tie incidents which
may attend and all the ruin which may follow
such as NAV seem indispensable or may obvious
" promise, great efficiency towards ending the
struggle must and will come. The proposition
now made, though offer only. hope it may
be esteemed no offense to ask whether the pecu-
MARY consideration rendered would be of more
value to the States and private persons concern
ell than are the institutions and property in it in
the present aspect of affairs. While it il true
that the adoption of the proposed resolution
would be mercy initiatory. not within itself
/ practical measure. it is recommended in the hopt
that it would sooner lead to important results
/ In full view of my great respons bty to my
I God and to my country, ! earnestly beg the at
tention of Congress and the people to the subject
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.