Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-03-15
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

WASHINoToN, March 6.
The President to-day transmitted TO Con.
gress the following message.
| FELLOW CITIzENs OF TEE Senate Avn
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE recommend
the adoption OF joint resolution by your
Honorable bodies which shall be sobstan.
TALLY as follows: ResolYed--That the II
3. ought to cooperate with any State which
may adopt gradual abolisbment of Slavery
giving to such State pecuniary aid TO be usei
ey such State in It's discretion 10 compensate
Tor the inconvenience, puolIc aud private,
produced by such change of system. If the
proposition contained in the resolution does
not meet the approval of Congress and the
country, there is the end; but if it does
command such approval, l deem it of inn.
portance that the States and people imme.
dlately interested, should be at once dis.
tinctly notified ofthe fact, so that they NAV
at once begin to consider whether to accent
or reject it. The Federal Government
would find the highest interest in such a
measure as one Of the most efficient measures
OF self preservation. The leaders of the ex.
IstIng insurrection entertain the hone thai
the Government will be ultimately forced To
acknowledge the independence OF some part |
OF the dlsatfected region, aud that all the |
slave states north of such parts will then
say the Uuiou for which we have STRUGGLED
beng already gone we now choose 10 go
with them.
10 deprive them of this hope substantially
ends the rebellion, and the initiation Of
emancipation completely deprives them of il.
AS to all the States initiating il, the point
Is not that oil the States ioleratIng slavery II
would very soon, if at all, initiate enamel !
patton, but that while the offer is equally !
made TO oil, the more northeru shall by such
make il certain to the more south. s
erni that in no event shall he former ioia ,
the latter in their proposed CoDfederaey. | | l
say Initiation, because in my Judgment. /
gradual aud not snddeu emancipation is bet.
Tor for ALL In the more financial or pecnn.
AIRY view, any member OF Congress with the
census tables and the Treasury report before {
him, con readily see for himself how very
soon the current expenditures of the war {
would purchase. at a fair valuation, all the
slaves in any named State. Such a propo.
sition on the part Of the General G Government
sets up 10 claim or right by Federal author
ity TO interfere with slavery within State
limits, referring as il does The absolute con.
troll of the subject in each case to the State {
aud its people Immediately interested.
II is proposed as q matter Of perfectly free {
choice with them In the annual message
last December thought fit 10 say the Unit I
On must be preserved, and hence all indis. 4
psnsable means must be employed. said {
this not hastily, but deliberately There
has been, and continues to be an indspensa
BILE means to ibis end. A practical re.ac J
inowledgement Of the National authority 1
would render The war unnecessary, and il n
would at once cease. II, however, resist. a
ince continues, the war must also continue
and Il is impossible to fOresee all the Incl. o
dents which may attend, and all the ruin D
which may follow Such as may seem in. b
lspensable, or may obviously promise grest le
efficiency tow ards ending the struggle, must HI
and will como. The proposition now made @
though an offer only, hope IL may be es-
Ieemed no offence 10 ask whether the pecu.
mary consideration teHdered would not be
Df more value to the States and private h
persons concerned than are the institution 81
and property in II in the present aspect OF b
affairs While il Is trae that the adoption z
If the proposed resolution would De iniiiato- D
y, aud not within itself practical meas IA
ire, it is recommended in the hope that il o.
Eould sooner lead 10 important results. 10 q
NIL view Of my responsibility 20 any God,
nd to my country, earnestly beg the at.
ubject. II
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