Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-03-07
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
FROM Washington.
Wa, uI>GToS, Harcl, :.

ot.:..l 70 tie Posl.
A tax npon cotton will be agreed to In tho
House a. an anenimeh. to tho tax bil! when that
rsas ure Genes up 10. Constellation. Inc bill Is
not yet pfiu;ed
The Finance Committee nf the Senate ha.
stluci out the II. use appropriation Of Sl3 O,ot"'
fJr the consiinetion ot gun boats, but the Assal
Coumit.cc i ursiil:: i's restoration
Seaater johnson !eayes Washington to-iay tor
Tennessee. He has not yet accepted ha APPOINT
rnent As Bri ,adier General
Inform ton has reached the Navy Department
Of the ca p.sre ot the schooner Lizzie cston,wi
a cargo Of 2ge bales Of cotton. by the Xuo-b,at
Itlgca The cao:ssci vessel sailed rom APllach.
cIa Fla, for Havana and Newmarket.
The President t. day transmitted to Congress
the following Incssa se:
Ie1lo,o Cl,izeas of lie S,a1te and U>ra 81 Reprs-
recommend the adoption ef joint resolution
your honorable BODIES, which shall be sub
stantslly AZ .9llows;
Re.,tf.d. That the United States ought to co
OF crate With any State which may adopia grad
ux abolition oi slavery, givin. to such State pc
cuuia aid to be used by such state in its u s.
creton, to compensate for the Inconvenience pub
lie and private, produce by stch chatge o' sys~
tenn.
Ii the proposition contaipea in tie resolution
does not meet the approbal. on OF Cona'es and
the cOuntry, there is tho end but ii docs I'm
manu- SUCH hppIIsai, dteui ~ Va 'nPpitdHce TIA
the States and people being inter ,sted should be
at diatincty notified OF the fact, 80 thA they
may begin to consider whether to accept or r. jec,
it. The Federal goveInment would find its igh-
es. interest in such measure, as one OF tho mos,
efficient measures Of self preservation.
The leaders Of the existing insurrectiCn enter
ain the hope that tho government will ultimately
i forced 10 acknowledge the independence Of
50. us part Of the disaiec,cd region, AID that
all Slave States north IL such parts
will then say that the Union for which we rave
strug yled, kcing already gone, wo now choo
to 70 With them. To deprive them of this hope,
substa ntialy ends the rebel on, aDd initiation pi
emanci, ,,ation p.etely deprives them u il. ~
to all the States initiating, the point is not that
all the States toorating slavery would very som,
il at all, initiate emanci alton, but that while
tie offer is equally made to all, the more n1rthern
shall ty such initiation make it certain to the
more southern that in no event shall the former
Join the latter in their proposed confedcracy.
say initiation, because, in my judgment, gradual,
and not sadden eman3ipation is better for all in
the mere financial or Pee mary view. Any mciE-
her OF Congress, with the census tables and the
treasury reports before him, can readily see for
himself how very soon the current expenditures OF
the war would purchase at fair valuation all the
slaves in any Iamel State. Such proposition
on the part II tie general government sets up Lo
claim or right by FEDERAL authority to interfere
with slavery within STATE limits referring as il |
does the absolute conuol Of the subject in each
case to the State and peopls being interested. 1t
is proposed as matter Of perfectly free choice.
Ia the Annusl last December thought nt TO say
the Union must be preserved, and trust all iadis-
pensable means will be employed.