The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-21
The President on Emancipation.


Elsewhere we print the paper read by Pre,i.
dent Lincoln 10 the members of Congress from
the Border States. 1t is significant and i'm
portant document in the history of these times
and fully shows tina, MIR Lincoln is sincerely
and heartily in favor Of emancipation. 1t has
been at times claimed by the pro-slavery press,
who have pretended to support the policy of the
Administration, and set have lost no opportu-
nifty OF unfairly assaiiing it by attacking its
great characteristic measures, that the enamel
patton resolution recommended to Congress was
wholly imprac.ieable measure, ard known to
be SO by the President when lie sent it to Con-
gress, and thai it was only 10 use the language
of these secret eAemies-thrown out Us a bone
20 appease the hungry radicals. The President,
however, by lis course since, has given the lie
to al this sander upon his honesty, and bv his
appeal to the Border States, in his proclamation
d'seTo'sg On. Hunters proclamation, and
nov by thiSaddie,s, Ia. shown most conclusive
y that his proposal has meant from the outset
all that the most earnes Repu olicans have
claimed for it, P.csiden, Lincoln is in earnest
about the matter, and means that the Border
State men shall hear and take warning.
Bat this address has mote than this sgnifi-
canoe The President ia kes the occasion to tell
the Border States men some plain truths He
says to them that they hold more power tor good
than any other equal plumber OF members, and
that, IN his opinion, If they " all had voted for
the resolution the war would now be substan-
italy ended He also ,ells them that emanci-
patton, as proposed by himself, is one of the
mos! potent and swift means of ending the war.
He also tells them that without Slavery this
war never could have been. And upon this ba-
Sis OF FACTS he urges Them with pathos and
force OF appeal that it seems impossible Tor any
cat those who prefer Slavery to the preserva-
tion OF the Government to resist, to break that
lever before the faces of the Gulf States, and
cut loose from the power Of Slavery forever If
any person, after reading this address, and
these strong appeals, backed by the irretutable
argumen of the President has any remaining
doubt about the purpose of Mr.. Lincoln to in
auSurate emancipation and commence the work
soon, we confess that We do not share their
doubts. To US this address looks straight for
ward to that goal, and its argument leads lnsv-
itably and directly to it.
There Is another point 10 this message to
which We especially commend the attention cf
those tiInid 4! rOnsarvatives who don,t d.,
and those pro-slavery 90 conservatives " who
don desire, to say a word against Slavery, or in
favor of emancipation, 10 this 50 crisis of our
country, who tell US, wheneyt lhat subject !,
introduced, to let that question alone, ano
give our undivided attention to putting down
the rebcon,-an that point is, the unmstaka-
BILE belief Of President Lincoln that enamel
patton in the Border States s one Of the
most powerful agencies that can be invoked as
!" most potent and swift means of ending " the
war. Mr.. Lincoln indeed iscusses it in this
address chiefly as war measure. He admits-in
his whole fact, argument proceeds upon the as
sumPtion-that if Slavery were sven to be q
doomed tuition in the Border States. the
Galf States would speedily see that further re-
sIstance was useless. And he tells the Border
States that the war will be prosecu ted to the Bit
ter end, and when that comes, i they refuse
the terms now offered, their institution NAV
be found to oe destroyed without mpensatop
We trust those who support President Lincoln 8
war policy will make a note of the fact that
emancipation IN the Border States, is now most
unequlVocally part of that policy
The reply of the majority of the Border States
men to this address, shows the same temper
and disposition they have manifested from the