The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-01
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log GsxlIxMir-After the sadiournment of
: Congress, now near, / shall have mo- oppor.
tunity sot seeing you for several months.
Believing. that you of the Border States
hold more power for good than any other
equal number of members. / feel Il duty
which cannot justifiably waive to make
this appeal to YOU. H git 7ss {
b9 i intend no reproach or complaint when
q assure you that, in my opinion, if You ell
had voted for the resolution in the Gradual
Emancipation Message Of last March, the
war would now be substantially ended.
Z And the plan therein proposed is vet one
OF the most potent and swift means of end
ing it. Let the States VIII oh are in the re-
bellion see definitely and certainly, that in
no event will the States you represent ever
join their proposed Confederacy, and they
d cannot much longer maintain the contest.
But you cannot divest them OF their hope
to ultimately have you with them, so long
as you show determination to perpetuate
the institution within your own States.
Beat them at elections as you have over.
wbelmipgly done, and, nothing daunted.
they still claim Won as their own. You and
/ know what the lever of their power ia.
Break that lever before their faces. and
they can shake Won no more forever D
Most of Won have treated me with kindness
and consideration, and I trust Won will not
now think / improperIv touch what Won
think is exclusively your own. when. for the
sake Of the whole country. I ask. Can
you, for your States, do better than to take
the course I urge? Discarding nmnctilio
and maxims adapted to more MANAGEABLE
times and looking only to the unnrecedent.
" stern facts of Our case. can Won do better
in any possible event? You prefer that the
constitutional relation of the States to the
nation shall he r,racticaIlv restored u;tbont
disturbance of the institution: and. if this
were done. nv whole duty. IN this resnect
under the Constitution and INV oath nf If,
fee, would be performed. Rut n il not
done, and we are irving TO accomplish r.
BY war. The incidents of the war cannot
be avoided. Ii the war continues long. as
it must if the object be not sooner obtain,
ed, the institution in YOUR States will be
extinguished by mere friction and abrasion
by the mere incidents of the war. 1t will
be gone. and YOU will have nothing yalua-
BILE in lieu of it. Much of its value is gone
already. How much better for you and
your people to take the step which at once
shortens the war, and secures substantial
compensation for that which is sure to be
wholly lost in any other event How much
better to thus save the money which else
sink forever in the war How much bet
ter to do it while we can, lest the war ere
long render us pecuniarily unable to do it |!
How much better for YOU, as seller. and the
nation as BUYER. to sell out and buy out that
without which the war could never have
been, than to sink both the thing to be sold
and the price of il in cutting one anotherb
threats. y
I do not speak of emancipation at once.
INIT of q decision At once to emancinate
gradually. Room in South America for
Colonization can be obtained cbeaplv and in
abundance. and when numbers shall be
large enough to be company and encourage
ment for one another, The freed people will
not be reluctant to 90.
1 am pressed with difficulty not yet
mentioned-one which threatens division
among those who, united, are none too
strong. An instance of it is known to YOU.
Gen. Hunter is an honest man. He was,
and / hope still is, nv friend. / valued him
none the less for agreeing with me in the
general wish that ali men everywhere cou ID
be freed. he proclaimed all men free with.
in certain States. and I regulated the pro-
cIamatiop. He expected more good and
less harm from the measure than could be
lieye would follow. Yet. in regulating it,
/ gave dissatisfaction, if not offence, to many
whose support the country could not afford
to lose. And this is not the end of it. The