The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-10
REGULATIONS FOR 1862.
TBE war AND THE PEACE
POLICY.
BY T. ABBOTT.

Mr. EDITOR: These are the resolutions
which we have submitted, and upon which
we have spoken in the presence of several
assemblies of the people in different sections
of this District The subject has met with
favorable consideration, and at the request
of those interested, we propose brief sy-
nopsis through the columns of your valua-
BILE Journal:
Resolved, That American slavery, more
than all other causes combined, has contibu-
ted to the unhappy and hostile division now
subsisting between the free and slave
States.
Resol1ed, That by the secession ordinan-
ces anC consequent appeal to arms which
the rebels of the seeding States have made,
they exclude themselves from the rights of
citizenship and forfeit all claim to the sup
port or protection of the United States
Government, either in person or property.
Resot0ed, That by the beligerent attitude
certain disloyal and rebellious people of the
United States have assumed, they have
placed themselves outside of all past political
codes or platforms; and, therefore, the pres
ent Administration is not bound to them by
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slavery" as the property of overtly treason
able subjects.
We do not propose at this point, to enter
into the argument upon the justness of the
above resolutions; but as the ultimate to
which they lead, we indicate the following
line Of Government policy
As the basis of this plan, we propose a
radical change in the principle upon which
the war has been so far conducted.
Governments do not remain stationary.
They must either advance or recede. Must
rise higher and higher in all the elements
of prosperity and grandeur, or must sink
lower and lower in the scale OF poverty,
ignorance and consequent degradation.
Therefore we claim, that we must emerge
from this war with better estimate of our
mission and destiny as nation, and with a
bolder purpose and stronger arm to achieve,
it; or with a depreciation of our power
position and self-respect before the world
We must show by our deeds, more devoted
ness to the true principles of greatness, or
our moral sense and national pride must
dwindle into trucking policy, thus show
ing our weakness TO the nations of the earth,
and inviting their merited contempt
Which will we do? If we would be
more elevated and happy than ever before,
we will not hesitate to assert our power
now while the favorable opportunity Offers
Our power will be Enthusiastically known
and acknowledged, when we dare to dictate
our own terms for the settlement of perma-
nent peace.
We should proclaim to our foes not only
the terms upon which peace may be restor-
ed, but we should also say what shall be
the results following to those in arms
against their Government. They do not
know whether or not their lives are to pay
the forfeit-what species of their property
is to be Iost-and most of all, they see not
how, if they would, they can hope TO extri-
cate themselves from the vortex into which
they have been drawn. They know some
body must pay the cost of this war even if
the innocent have to bear the burden of the
tax. The South may justly dread that all
this cost may be demanded at her bands
All these considerations, with Others are
pressing upon this issne and they demand
that future course should be adopted by
which perpetual peace may be maintained.
The course which the opportunity de-
mands, and for which the public mind is
now well nigh prepared, is
Ist- That the United States Government
should issne proclamation, offering par
don to all insurgents on their conformity to
the following terms: (D. That within the
period of ninety days from the date of said
proclamation, they shall deliver up to the
United States authorities all arms and mu-
nitiOns of war under their control, and
shall resume their allegiance. (2). They
shall arrange for the settlement of ali claims
due from them to loyal citizens of the Uni
ted States
End. All overtly reasonable subjects who
shall refuse or neglect to comply with the
above terms of pardon, within the time
specified shall be treated as incorrigible foes
and all real and personal property, and
all slaves to them belonging, shall be CENTS
Gated to be appropriated to the use and sup
port of the war.
construed in conflict with the Constitutional
State Rights of the loyal men of the slave
States; on the contrary, if in the operation
of the above policy should any loyal men
suffer the loss of their slaves, the Govern
ment should hold itself bound to indemnify
them against the same.
4th. As wise and iudicious measure the
Government should offer to purchase the
slaves of all loyal men, and also, the slaves
of the returning disloyalists, who can be in
duced to sell the same at fair valuation.
9th. Such persons as are now held as
slaves, who may, according to the above
provisions, be either purchased or confsca-
ted, shall not be Immediately and un-
conditionally emancipated; but, on the
contrary, Government protectorate should
be preserved over them, and they should be
held as servants to the Government for a
given term of years-with certain limits
and conditions hereafter to be named-with
a view to better prepare them for self-gov-
ernment in the future, and to reimburse the
United States in part for the expenditures
made in their behalf.
9th These Government servants should
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