The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-08-02

are trying to accomplish it by war. The in
cidents of the war cannot be avoided. /
the war continues long, as it must if tn,
object be not sooner attained, the institution
in your States will be extinguished by mer,
/ friction and abrasion-by the mere incidents
of the war. It win be gone, and you vii
have nothing valuable in lieu of it.. Mucl
of its value is gone already. How much
better for you and for your people to take
the step which at once shortens the war,
and secures substantial compensation fol
that which is sure to be wholly lost in any
other event How much better to thus save
the money which else We sink forever in the
war How much better to do it while We
can, lest the war ere long render US pecu.
niarily unable to do it How much better
for you, as sellers, and the nation, as buyer
to sell out and buy out that without which
the war could never have been, than to sinh
both the thing to be sold and the price of il
in cutting one another's threats.
do not speak of emancipation at once
bat of a decision at once to emancipate grad.
atally. Room in South America for colon.
ization can be obtained cheaply, and in
abundance, and when numbers shall be Lar ore
enough to be company and encouragement
for one another, the freed people will not be
SO reluctant to go.
am pressed with difficulty not yet men.
| tioned-one which threatens division among
those who, united, are none too strong. An
instance of it is known to you. Gen. Hun
ter is an honest man. He was, and hope
still is, my friend. I valued him none the
less for his agreeing with me in the general
wish that all men everywhere could be freed
He proclaimed all men free within certain
States, and I repudiated the proclamation
! He expected more good and less harm from
the measure than could believe would fol-
low. Yet, in repudiating it, gave dissat-
! isfaction, if not offense, to many whose sup
port the country cannot afford to lose. And
this is not the emil of it. The pressure in
this direction is still upon me, and is in
creasing. By conceding what now ask
you can relieve me, and, much more, you
can relieve the country in this important
point.
Upon these considerations I have again
begged your attention to the message OF
March last. Before leaving the Capital,
consider and discuss it among yourselves.
You are patriots and statesmen, and as such
pray you consider this proposition; and
at least commend it to the consideration
of your States and people. AS you would
perpetuate popular government for the best
people in the world, beseech you that you
do in no wise omit this. Our common
country is In great peril, demanding the
| loftiest action to bring a speedy relief.
Once relieved, its form of government is
saved to the world; its beloved history and
cherished memories are vindicated, and its
happy future fully assured and rendered in
conceivably grand. To you more than to
any others, the privilege is given to assure
| that happiness and swell that grandeur, and
10 link your own names Herewith forever.
At the conclusion Of these remarks, some
conversation was had between the President
and several members of the delegations from
the border States, in which it was repre-
sented that these States could not be expect
ed to move in SO great matter as that
brought 10 their notice in the foregoing ad-
dress, while as yet Congress had taken no
step beyond the passage of resolution ex-
pressive rather of sentiment than presenting
a substantial and reliable basis of action.
| The President acknowledged the force OF
| this view, and admitted that the border
States were entitled to expect substantial
pledge of pecuniary aid as the condition OF
taking into consideration proposition SO
important in its relations to their social
system.
1t was further represented in the confer
ence that the people of the border States
were interested IN knowing the great impor-
lance which the President attached to the
policy in question; while it was equally due
to the country, to the President and to them
selves that the representatives of the border
slaveholding States should publicly an
nounce the motives under which they were
called to act, and the considerations of pub
lie policy urged upon them and their con-
stituents by the President
The replies of the border State members
are published. The majority refuse to ac-
cede to the Presidents appeal, and thus
the matter ends.
PACIFIC RAILROAD.
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