Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-11
EMANCIPATION BY THE
BORDER STATES.
Mesa ge Of the PRESIDENT.
COOPERATION OF THE GOVERN
MENT PROPOSED.
HOW it is Received by the Country.
PREsIDENT's MEssAGE.

FSLIO'O-C -CTtisens Of the Senate aud House Of Repre-
se'atatires: IrecOmmend the adoption Of Joint
resolution by your honorable bodies which shaII he
substantially as follows:
Rcsolred, That the United States ought to CO.
operate with any State which may adopt gradnal
70 De used By such State, In its discretion to conl-
pehsa' u ior the Inconvenience, public aud private
produced by such change OF system.
'lfIhe proposition contained In the resolution does
not meet the approval OF Congress and the conntrr
there is end fit. But II Il does Command sIsb
approval deem It Of importance that the States and
ttnetIy notified of the fact, that they may begin
to consider whether to accept or relecT II.
the EeuerRi Government would find highest
interest IN such measure as of the most impor-
tAlt means Of efpreserVAtion. The lOaden, OF the
existing rebellion entertain the hope that this Gov
ernment will ultimately be forced to ACKNOWLEDGE
the independence SOME part Of the isafrcted re-
gon, and that all the Slave States north OF suc
viii then say The Union forwhich we have strug-
sieu bslnB already gone, we now choose to 20 with
the Southern Bection" To deprive them Of this hone
substantially euds the rebellion; and thuIntiation or
emancipation dePrires them Of 1t, and to all the
The point. Is mot that ali the States rtolsratipp
slavery would very soon fiat all, initiate emaheipa-
more Northern shall, by such initiation, make It
certain to the more Southern that In NO event viii
the former ever Join the Inter in their nn
federacy. say Initiation because IN !iudVmsnt
ali. A ''1 "O' Suuusn enumeration Is better for
berof Congress, with census or an abstract Of the
Treasury report before him. can readily zee for him
self how very soon the current expenditures of thIs
war would purchase Al fair valuation all the slaves
In any named State. 49,
Such proposition ON tho part OF the eueral Gov.
ernment sets up no claim Of right by the Federal
authority to interfere with slavery within State lin
itsreferring 1t does the absolute control of the
kuhec In each case, TO the State and the people i'm
medlately interested. 1t is PROPOSED as matter Of
perfect free choice TO them.
In the annual message, last December, / thought
Mt to say: 'The Union must be preserved aud hence
all indispensable means must be employed" / said
this not hastily, but deliberately. War has been
made and continues to bea indispensable means to
this end. practical Acknowledgements Of the
national authority would render the WNr uuueees..
saTy, and It would at cease. But resistance
continues, and the must also continue; and n Is
impossible to fOreBeO all tho Incidents which NAV
attend, and all the IA which may follow Il. Such
as may seem Indispensable, may obviously prom-
ise great efficiency toward ending the struggle must
and will come. aF-lr F7fG q
The proposition now made, Though offer OnIy,)
hopeit may be esteemed no offence to ask whether
the pecuniAry consideration rendered would not be
Of more value to the States and private persons con-
eerned than would the institution and property IN
IT. in the esent aspect Of Affairs While II Is tine
that the adoption Of the proposed resolution Woud
he merely initiatoTyy and not within itself pract
almeasure, Il 10 recommended In the hope that Il
would lead to important practical results. ~ EEi
In full view Of my great responsibility to God and
my country, earnestly beg the attention OF Con-
gress andthe people to the subiect.r zs - -
~ - s-- - ABRAHAM LINCOLN