The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1862-03-19
The Presidents Message.

W AcuiNcioSs ~h"a~h W Ass~ e~~'
dent to-day transmitted to Congress
the following message:
Fellow citizens Of the Senate and
House Of Representatives: ] recon-
mend the adoption of joint resolu-
ton by your honorable bodies, which
shall be substantially as follows:
Resolved, That the United States
ought to cooperate with any State
which may adopt gradual abolish
ment of slavery, and giving to such
State pecuniary aid, to be used by
such State in its discretion; to COM
pensatc for the inconvenience, pub
lie and 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, deem it OF
importance that the States and people
Immediately interested, should be at
once distinctly notified Of the fact 50
that they may begin to consider wheth-
er to accept or reject it. The Federal
Government would find its highest in
terest in such measure as one Of the
most efficient measures of self preser-
walton. The leaders of the existing
instruction, entertain the hope that
the Government will be ultimately
forced to acknowledge the indepen-
'dencc OF some part Of the disafiected
region and that ak the slave States,
north Of such parts will then say, the
). Union for which we have struggled
: being already gone, we choose to &c
with them. To deprive them Of this
hope, substantially ends the rebellion
and the initiation Of emancipation
completely deprives them OF it as t
! all the States initiating it.
The point is not that all the States
: tolerating slavery would very soon
! if at all, initiate emancipation, 5u'
that while the offer is equally made Z
!, all. the more northern shall by sucl
O initiation make it certain to the NOR
Southern that in no event shall tn
, former join the latter in their proposes
= confederacy, | say initiation, becans
i in my judgment gradual and not sud
!. den emancipation is better for ALL
y In the mere financial or pecuniar
n view any member Of Congress, wit
the census tables and treasury report
before him. can readily see for hin
! self how very soon the current exper
u ditures OF the war would purchase,
d a fair valuation, all the slaves in an
'e named State. Such proposition Q
70 the part Of the General Governmel
! sets up no claim or right by Fedcr'
Is authority to interfere with SLAYER
y within State limits-reterring as
does the absolute control OF the sui
ject in each case to the State and tn
~ people Immediately interested. 1t
at proposed as a matter Of perfectly fr'
% choice with them.
~ In the annual message last Decor
3 Der thought fit to say that the Uni'
en- must be preserved and hence all j
~ dispensablc means must be einployc
lis l said this not hastily but deliberatel
ed War has been and continues to be
indispensable means to this end.
practical acknowledgment Of the n
=, tional authority would render the "
~ unnecessary, and it would at on
l, cease. II, however, resistance co
u tinucs, the war must continue, and
ey Is impossible to forcsee all the in
~. dents which may attend, and all
~ ruin which may follow, such measul
o. as may seem indispensable or may
- viously promise, great efficiency
wards ending the struggle, and viii
must and will come.
ng The proposition now made, thou
Us an offer only,I hope it may be
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