Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-04-03

lution by your honorable bodies, which shall be substantially as follows:
 " ResoEced. That the United States ought to co.onerate with any State which Iay adopt p gradual abolishment of slavery, gvlng to such State pecunary aid, to be used by such State in it's discretion, to compensate for the ineon- veniences, public and private, produced by such change of system. If the proposition cons tained in the resolution does not meet the ap> proval of Congress and tae country, there Is the end, but If 1t does command such approval, l deem 1t of importance that the States and people immediately interested should be at once distinctly notified of the fact so that they may begin to consider whehter to accept or re- feet it. The Federal Government would find its highest interest i'll such a measure. as one of the most efficient measures of salEpreserva- ton. The leaders of the existing insurrection entertain the hope that the government will ultimately be forced to acknowledge the nde> pendence Of some part otthe disatfected region, and that all the slave States north of such part will then sap: The Union for which we have struggled being already gone, we nov choose to % with them. To deprive them of this hope substaustially ends the rebellion, and the initia- ton of emancipation completely deprives them of it. AS to all the States initiating 1t, the point IS not that all -1e States toleratng slavery would very soon, if at all, initiate emancipation, but that while the offer is equally made to all the more northern shall by such initiation make 1t certain to the more southern that Tn n0 event shall the former join the latter in their proposed Contederacy. l say initiation, because in my judgment, gradual, and not sudden, emanclpa- tion, is better for all. In the more financial CT pecunlary view, any member ot Congress, with census tables and treasury reports before him, ,l,,r salf b current expenditures of the war would purchase at very fair valuation ail the slaves in any named State. Such proposition on the part of the general government sets up no claim orright by federal authority to inteere with slavery with in State limits, referring it does the absolute control ot the subject in each case to the State and it's people immediately interested. It is pro- posed as matter of perfectly free choice with them. Iii the annual message last December, l thought ft to say that the Union must be preser- ed, aud hence all indispensable meaus must be employed. ] said this not hastily, but deliber- ateIY.
 War has been and continues to be an ndis- penSabe means to this end. 4 practical reac- knowldgement of the national authority would render the war unnecessary, and 1t would at once cease If, however, resistance continues, the war must also continue; and 1t Is impossible to foresee all the incidents which may attend, and all the ruin which may follow Such as may seem indispensable CT may obviously prom ise great efficiency toward ending the struggle, must and will come. The proposition now made, though an offer only, hope itmay not be esteem- ed otiense to ask whether the pecuniary consi4- eraton rendered would not be of more value to States and private persons concerned than are the institution and property in it, in the present aspect of affairs. While 1t Is true that the adop ton of the proposed resolution would be merely initatory, and not within itself practical meas ure, it Is recommended in the hope that il would sooner lead to important results. h full view ofmy great responsibility to my God and to my country l earnestly beg the attention Of Con- gress and the people to the subject
 (signedl AEAHAM LINCOLN.