Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-12

MILTON B. HOPKINS,
OF Clinton County.
The President on Emancipation.
The suggestions Of the President in his recent
message in favor Of the General Government ex-
tending pecuniary aid to those States which may
adopt The policy OF gradual emancipation, to COM
pensate them for the public and private incon-
venience attending upon such change of system.
are considered by the leading organs Of public
sentiment from entirely different stand points and
with widely differens conclusions. The New
York Tribune, the organ of the radical Republi-
cans, halls it as The message of freedom. -
One Of those few great scriptures that live in his
tory aud make an epoch in the lives of nations
and races" IL thus interprets the suggestions Of
the President:
lie sees that. however often rebellion may be
suppressed the South, IL will never be ended so
long a. slavery has assured existence L he
continuation Of slavery as a permanent institu-
ton ON winch inroad has been made the
continuation of the war, for resistance 70 the
Federal Government must be permanently sup
pressed. and resistance brings war. Whatever is
Indispensable to this end must he done. and slave.
~, therefore must fall either in one way or the
other. Let the slave lolders begin the reform and
We will give them our hearty aid; If they will not
then we must do IL without them IL necessary
step toward the establishment of permanent
peice and the supremacy OF the Union. for slave
~ u rebellion. fhe South has the choice of be
ginning the work with the help Of the whole
country, and the system thus To be left To gradu-
ally disappear from natural bat inevitable causes:
she may refuse and resent the offer and take
the consequences OF continued resistance. This
- clearly Mr.. LincOins meaning, and his convic-
tons are OF character that do not proclaim
themselves merely ~ words Taking counsel
of flesh and blood ia this matter, but remember
ing his responsibility as the head of great ma
ton whose very existence is threatened he goes
straight the root of the disease. when he sees
the time has come and determines upon its Grad
ication.
The New York Herald regards the proposition
of the President $50 simple. so just, profound
AMI comprehensive that may pronounce it as
reaching the final solution and settlement of the
most perplexing difficulty in our political system >"
IL regards it conservative measure in direct
conflict with the fanatical unwise and dangerous
schemes of the Abolitionists. Ii thus interprets
the Presidents policy:
Mr. Lincoln reafiirms the institution of slavery
>
and pointeily rebukes all such violent and law
less schemes of emancipation and confiscation as
those of Senator Sumner, Mr.. Ashley, OF Ohio,
and their radical abolition associates. With this
rebellion tightly within his grasp. Mr.. Lincoln
proclaims to the reyolted States that in returning
to the Union. their constitutional rights. they
were. will be retained and that each State con
eerned will be left perfectly free to choose be
tween the retention and the gradual abolition of
slavery. This official declaration ofitself cannot
fail to exert wholesome influence in favor of
peace throughout the South and. if seconded by
Congress. il will leave the intractable managers
OF this rebellion without pretext of justification
among honest men Mt home and abroad.
The New York Journal of Commerce, the rep
resentative of another class OF public sentiment.
says:
Mr. Lincoln does not propose any plan for re
moving slavery. He adopts the views OF Wash
ington and ms contemporaries, for which We have
so often and so laborious,y contended against
much Obloquy and reproach. and the principles
on which the Constitution was founded, and ex
presses his conviction. that whatever plan be
adopted, gradual emancipation would be better
than immediate abolition. Good men, from the
earliest days. have desired to see some plan for
the removal OF the slave system, and the substi-
tuition of another labor system in its place; and
their desires would long ago have been accom-
plished in several States now known slave
States. but Tor the interference of the radical abo-
litOn schemes, which eiectually blocked all the
advance OF free labor plans in Maryland, Virgi-
MIA and other States.
Quoting the resolution that the President die
tates to Congress for adoption, that paper places
the following constructions upon the recommend
atoms of the message:
Tn resolution proposes to recognize three dis
tnct principles which underlie the foundations Of
the slavery system, and which are necessary To
be regarded in the ultimate removal of the insti
tuition.
L. That the relation of master and slave is a
relation of ownership and property, for which
compensation ought to be made.
? That the people of the whole nation. North
and South either from having originated the sys
TEN. which once existed by British law, and UNI
der British protection. throughout the land, OF tor
other reasons, may of right Toe called on - aid
those who are pecuniarily interested IN the system
10 remove or modify IL. To remove the quail
ify OF property from the relation OF master and
servant or employer and laborer
;. That the several States are the proper and
only powers Ia originate emancipation plans.
These al sound principles. and their enun-
citation by the President at this time makes them
especially note worthy
Ii the President should happen to read these
various interpretations Of his recommendations
10 Congress and the country In favor of gradual
emancipation in those States which may elect 10
adopt that policy upon the principle OF compeiisa-
ton the owners o: that kind Of property out ol
the public Treasury, which the Cincinnati Ga.en,
said we're - under t,nlable that there could be
no question a. to his meaning. would be some
what puzzled To comprehend the policy he had in
view We think the great body of the people can
easily comprehend the Whole question. They
will overlook the humanity of the proposition in
the practical application Of the principles Of non
intervention. If tie people of any Of the States
which now tolerate slavery. believe that the IN
stitu,on Is an evil and that the Substitution o
free labor would he TO their advantage. they vii
not be slow TO comprehend their duty and policy
For these reasons slavery has been abolished Il
several States since the adoption Of the Fedora
Constitution by gradual emancipation. without
soliciting aid from the General Government. A
slavery becomes unproiiable and undesirable
/, and whenever and wherever public POLICY de
mands is eradication il viii yield 20 these con
sideraii0ns, as u has in those States In which !