St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-03-13
Message Of the President.
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EMANCIPATION INITIATED.

The President to-day transmitted to
:Cosgsee the following message: r:
Fs'lss 0tissss .fth< Senate sn1 Aesse; Of Rep
rsssssshipss:
+ recommend tho adoption, Of . joint
resolution BY your honorable bodies which
shall be substantially as follows:
R<solsed, That the United States ought 10
co orerate With any State which may adopt .
general sbslishmsat Of slavery, giving to such |
State pecuniary aid, to bs used by such State,
in ito discretion, to compensate for the incon- !
vsnienes, public and private, proposed by
such change Of system. t'.i =" -"t9: I'll.
If the proposition contained in the reso-
luton does not meet the approval Of Con-
gress and the country, there is the end of
It but if it does command such approval,
I deem it Of importance that the States
and people Immediately interested should
be At once distinctly notified Of the fact,
20 that they may begin to consider wheth-
er to accept or reject it. 80. i'.
The Federal government would find its
highest interest in such measure IS one
of the most efficient measures of self
ervation. The leaders of the 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 tho slave
States north of such parts willsay "the Union
for which We have struggled being already
gone, We now choose to go with them
To deprive them Of this hope substantially
ends the rebellion, and the initiation of
emancipation completely. 'deprives them Of
it As to al the States initiating it the
point is not that all the States tolerating
slavery would very soon if at all, initiate
emancipation but, that while the offer is
equally made 70 all, the more northern
shall, by such initiation, make it certain
to the southern that in no event shall the
former join the latter in their proposed
Confederacy. I say in initiation because
I believe gradual aud not sudde emancl-.
patton is better for all in the nero 6nan-
:cial or pecuniary view. Any member 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 var. would purchase,
at = fair valuation, all the slaves in any
State. Such = proposition on the part saf
the general government sets up no claims
or right by federal authority to interfere
with slavery within State limits, referring,
IL it docs, the; absolute control Of the sub.
ject in each case to the State and it's peo.
pie Immediately lnterested. tits proposed
% matter Of perfectly free choice with
them. + thought st to s.y the Union
must be preserved, and hence all indispen-
sable means, must be employed.r I said
this not hastily, but deliberately. - War
has been and continues to be IN indispen-
sable measure TO this end. Afpractical re-
acknowledgements Of the national author
ity would render the war unnecessary, and
Lis would At once cease. I; ..,....,,
p: If, however, resistance continues, the
var must also continue, and 1t is impoes;-
bio to foresee all tho incidents which may
tattepd and III ruin which may follow
Such - nay seam' Indispensable or may OBJ
viosslJ promise gseat efficiency towards en-
|d,ag Tie struggle, n.st and, wiz come --
The proposition j. now made, though
Az, offer only, + hope it may be e.
teemed no offence to ask 9wethef the peeu-
mary consideration rendered would not 'bs
|iofamore vslle ottks oStstee aad ,Pri.ats
persona concerned than, are the ,institution
land property in i? -, ri /
+: II t6e present aspect Of stairs, while i
Is true that the .adoption Of the lptoposed
resolution would bs,msrely init;atorJ asd
not Within iitsef spracticalmeasureit it isreo,
tomnended IN ths hopethatitx xelld soone1.
lad Aoiopertapt rssulte. "A s,,-, <.s;2, =
i IN full view Of my grssat respolsibility TO
<lpy God and 70 ny; ;sountry, I aaRnsbuy beg
he sttel,ios of Congll,e,iSis 'aad n&Ss people
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