The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1862-04-04

WAsnNGroN March G.-The President
to-day transmitted to Congress the follow
log message:
EeuoH-Ctaeus oftlc Senate and
bou,e NJ Representatives;
| recommend tie adoption Of Joint
resolution hyyour honorable bodies. which
shall be substantially az follows:
u the proposition contained in the res.
pIuuOn does not meet the approyal of
Congress and the country. there is the
end OF y but if it does command such
approval, deem it important that lbe
state and people immediately interested
mould be az once distinctly notified Of
me fact, 80 that they may begin to con
,lder whether TO accept it or reject it,
me Federal Government~would find its
highest Interest IN such a measure MS one
d the most efficient measures of seizure.
4ervation. The leaders of the existing in
surrecion entertain the hope that, the
Government will be forced to acknowledge
he independence OF some parts Of the
aisatiecied region, or that all the slave
state nolth Of such parts will then say.
the Union for which we have struggled
being already gone, we now choose to 20
with them" 70 deprive them Of the
nope, substantially ends therebellion. and
the iniii0tion Of emancipation completely
depriyes them of it as to all the States in
tiating it.
The port is not that all the States toll
Grating slavery would very soon. il at all
initiate emancipation. but that while the
order is equally made to all the more
Northern States shall, by such initiation
make it certain to the more Southern
states that in no event shall the former
ioin the latter in the proposed -Confedera-
cy. ! say initiate, because in my judy
ment, gradual and not sudden omancpa-
ton is better for all in the mere financial
or pecunary view. ANY member OF Con
gress With the census tables and the
treasury reports before him, can readily
see for himself how very soon the current
expenses Of the war would purchase, at q
fair valuation, all the slaves in any named
State. Such % proposition, on the part Of
the General Government, sets up no claim
or right by the Federal authorities to in.
'ellere with slavery within the State lin
its, referring, as it does, the absolute con
troll Of the subject, in each case, to the
state and the people Immediately inter
. ested. 1t is proposed as a matter of free
choice with them.
In the annual message last December,
thought fit to say that the Union must be
preserved, and hence all indispensable
means must be employed. said this no.
hastily, but deliberately War has beer
ascortained to be an indispensable means
, TO this end. A practical acknowledgment
Of the national authority would rendeI
the war unnecessary and it would at once
{ cease. If, however, resistance continues
4 the war must also continue, and it is i'm
possible to foresee all the incidents which
may attend ii and all the ruin which ma,
l. follow. Such as may seem indispensabl
or may obviously promise great ethclenc
towards ending the struggle must and vii
cone. The proposition now made, tho
p IN offer only, hope it may be esteeme'
Il no olleuse to ask whether the pecuniar
le compensation rendered would not be 9
ol more value TO the States and private PEI
sons concerned, than are the instituto
and property in it. in the present aspec
ne Of affairs. While it is true that the ado1
= lion Of the proposed resolution would b
I'd merely initiating. and not within itself
practical measure it is recommended
tho House that it would sooner lead
important results
d. In full view of my responsibility to m
n God ard to my country ! earnestly bt
,ts the attention of Congress and the peoP
i to the subject. .,-eo,,-
ed ABRAHAM LINCOLN.