The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-07-17
The Presidents Message on freedom o
Slaves.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-the President has
submitted to Congress brief message enclos-
ing draft of a bill to compensate any State
which may abolish slavery within its limits,
and respectfully recommending its passage, as
follows:
Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of
Representatives
Herewith is a draft Of the bill to compensate
any State which may abolish slavery within its
limits the passage Of which substantially as
presented, respectfully and earnestly recon
mend.
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Be 1t enacted, BY the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, that whenever the
President of the United States shall be satisfied
that any State shall have lawfully abolished sla-
very within and throughout said State, either
Immediately or gradually, it shall be the duty
of the President assisted by the secretary of
the treasury to prepare and deliver to each
State all amount Of six per cent. interest-bear-
ing bonds of the United States equal to the ag-
gregate value at ba nix dollars per head for a.!
the slaves within such State reported by the
census Of 1860, the whole amount for any one
State to be delivered at once if the adjustment
be immediate, or III equal annual instruments
if it be gradual, interest to begin running on
each bend at the time of delivery and not be-
fore.
| And be it further enacted that if any State
having SO received any such bonds, shall
at any time afterwards by law, re introduce or
tolerate slavery within its limits contrary to the
act of adjustment upon which said bonds so
received by said State shall al once be null and
void in whosoever hands the same may be, and
which state shall refund to the United states all
interests which have been paid on such bonds.
The House Select Committee on Emancipa-
ton III the border States, will probably report
on the subject tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, July 4, 1862.
TIE bill which the Senate passed to-day for
the admission of Western Virginia is indenti
cal with the bill before the House on the same
subject. 1t differs from Mr. Wade's bill in not
including the valley of Virginia in the linn
its of the new State, and in not requiring new
constitutional convention, The bill as passed
Requires the late Wheeling convention 10 reas
semble and insert a clause in the constitution
reading as follows: "No person born within the
limits Of this State, after March 4th, 1868, shall
be held as a slave, nor after such time shall
slaves be permitted to come into the State for
permanent residence therein: ProUided, That
all the slaves within the limits of said State
at the time aforesaid under ten years of age
shall be free when twenty-one. and all over
ten and under twenty-one shall be free when
twenty-five. When this clause shall have been
ratified by popular vote, the President shall is
tue proclamation stating the fact, and sixty
says there after the act Of admission shall
dake effect.
Mr. Garlic made violent opposition to the
passage of the bill in this shape. He wanted
the slavery question ''let alone" His COL
league, Mr.. Wiley, was equally warm for its
admission under those provisions. Netwith-
standing this unexpected opposition of Garlic
as well as of TrumbuIl and others the bill pass
ed by handsome majority.
1t is thought its chances in the House are
pretty good