The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-03-14
FROM WASHINGTON
HIGHLY IMPORTANT
Message of the President.
THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
He Recommends Pecuniary Aid to
States that may Abolish slavery.

dent today transmitted to Congress the
following message:
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of
Representations:
recommend the adoption of joint res
olution by your honorable bodies which
shall be substantially as follows:
Resolved, That the United States ought to
cooperate with any State which may adopt a
gradual adjustment of slavery, giving to such
State pecuniary aid to be used by such State
in its discretion to compensate for the incon.
venience, public and private, proposed by
such change of system.
If the proposition contained in the reso.
luton does not meet the approval of Con.
gress and the country, there is the end but
if it does command such approval, deem
it of Importance that the States and people
Immediately interested should be ut once
distinctly notified OF the fact, so that they
may begin to consider whether to accept or
reject it.
The Federal Government would find it's
highest interest in such measure, as one
OF the most efficient measures of self pres.
ervatiOn.
The leaders OF the existing insurrection
entertain the hope that the Government
will ultimately be forced to acknowledge
the independence of some part of the dis
affected region, and that all the Slave
States north OF such parts will then say,
" The Union for which We have struggled,
being already gone, We now choose to so
with them"
10 deprive them Of this hope substan
TALLY ends the rebellion, and the initiation
OF emancipation completely depGyes them
of it.
AS to all the States initiating it, the
point is not that all the States tolerating
slavery would very soon, If at all, initiate
EN- lncipation, but that while the Offer is
equally made to all, the more northern shall
by such inltiation make it certain 10 the
more southern, that liz 10 event shall the
former join the latter 10 their proposed
C0niederacy.
say Initiation, because in my Judgment
gradual and not sudden emancipation is
better for all in the mere financial Or pacu-
mary view.
any member of Congress, with the Gems
aus tables au3 tie treasury reports before
him, Can rapidly see for himself how very
soon the current expenditures OF tbs war
would purchase at a fair valuation all the
slaves lii any named State.
Such g proposition Oh the part OF the
General Government sets up no Claim CT
right by the Federal authority to interfere
with slavery within State limits, referring
as it does TO the absolute control OF the
subject In each case TO the State and It's
people immediately interested.
Il is proposed as 3 naiter o! perfectly
tree choice with them.
IL the anuuai message OF last December,
l thought fl to say tie Union must be pres
served, and Ee2ce all Indispensable means
must be employed.
said this not hastily, but deliberGteiy--
WAr Las been and contours to be al indis,
peHsabie means 20 this elG.
4 practicai re- aclzncw :edgment OF the ma
tonai authority wCGid re- der the WE aD-
uaceesa1y, aud i: would at once cease.
Ii, however, resistance CONTINUES the var
must a:so continue end it is impossible to
lofesee al the incidents which rn3y altcGd
2ud all the ruin wtich may follow, Such
means as may seem Indispensable or may
obviously promise great efficiency towards
ending The struggle must and VIII cons.
ihe proposition u0W mace, though al cil.r
only, hope it may be 40 odoace 10 ask
whether the ptcuniaiy GOES Iteration ten
oer3c wou!d Eot be O. u,oEe value 10 the
Sialss 2ld private i,etsoos cOluerae0 than
are Tire Institution and property IL II.
Ia The present aspe3, 9. aiiiirs. Will it
A ~ -. go
Resolutions would oe mtyeiy iSitiatory, and
cot Within ltseIia pI c..c4i measure, il is
Recommended Ia ,ha hope hat it w0o!d
Sooner ie..c IL liz porsaut results.
IL su. view OF ny great responsibility to
iDy God and lny country earnestly beg
the atteg tel OF Congress and the peop.e OF
the subject.
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
ANDREW JOHNSON AND ME5SRS. May
NARD AAD ETHERiDGE LEAVE FOR
TENN ES5EE.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-tienaral Andy
Johnson and Representatives Maynard and
Etheridge leave for Tennessee tomorrow.
General Johnson will Immediately upon his
arrival at Nashville, call upon the loyal
people Of the State TO elect delegates to
a convention to be charged with the duty
o! declaring vacant the places OF Governor
Harris and bis renei associates and electing
new officers, aud setting loyal State Gov
Oh its feet.
BROADER GENERALS.
General Spear OF Tennessee Was con.
tirned Brigadier General today. Three
more Brigadlers ir persons of Lieutenant
Colonel emory of the 9th cavalry, and
Colonies Qaimby aud Patrick have been
nominated.
TROUBLE WITH NAIL CONTRACTORS.
The Postmaster General TO-DAY COM
planned in letter to the Post Office Com.
mites OF both Houses of the refusal OF
Commodore Vanderbilt to carry the South
American mails, and Of some Northern
Railroads to contract to carry mails. He
recommended that legislation be adopted to
free the government from the dictation Of
Railroad and Steamboat proprietors.