The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-06
OEfice on Printers' Alley, between
Union and Deuderlnly streets.
TnURsDAY MoRNINe, Nov 8. lsaa

CONFORMATION netxveen the President
Of the United states aud sOuRe OF
tiie Representative OF the Tpr6er
slave states upon the Emaneipa-
fiOn Proposition,
rFrom tho Louisville Dcmocratl
DEAR SIN: called, at the request Of
the President, to ask you to come to the
White House tomorrow morning at nine
o'clock, and bring such ofyour colleagues
as arc in town.
WASHINGTON Cry, ID. C.,l
March 10, 1862.
Yesterday, on my return from church,
found Mr.. Postmaster General Blair in
my room, writing the above note which
\ he Immediately suspended, and ver-
bally communicated the Presidents in
vitation, and stated that the Presidents
purpose was TO have some conversation
/ with the delegations of Kentucky, Mis-
souri,, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware,
in explanation of his message Of the 9th
instant.
This morning these delegations, or
such of them as were in town, assembled
at the White House at the appointed
time, and, after some little delay, were
admitted TO an audience Mr.. Leary
and myself were the only members from
! Maryland present, and, think, were the
only members of the delegation at the
time in the city. l know that Mr..
Pearce, of the Senate, and Messrs. Web
ster and Calvert, of the House, were abb
sent.
After the usual salutations, and we
were seated the President said in SUBJ
stance, that he had invited us TO meet
him TO have some conversation with us
in explanation of his message of the 9th;
that since he had sent il in several of the
gentlemen then present had visited him,
but had avoided any allusion TO the mes
sage, and he therefore inferred that the
import of the message had been misun-
derstood, and was regarded as inimical
TO the interests we represented; and he
; had resolved he would talk with us, and
, disabuse our minds of that erroneous
, opinion. He then disclaimed any intent
| to injure the interests or wound the sem
! | sibilities Of the Slave States. On the
contrary, his purpose was to protect the
one and respect the other that we were
engaged in terrible, wasting, and tedious
, war immense armies were in the field
. and must continue in the field as long as
. the war lasts; that these armies must, Of
q necessity, be brought into contact with
0 slaves in the States we represented, and
in other States, as they advanced thai
,, slaves would come 20 the camps ant
I, continual irritation was kept up that ht
was constantly annoyed by conflicting
and antagonistic complaints on the ont
side, certain class complained if thu
slave was not protected by the army
o persons were frequently found, who, par
y ticipating in these views, acted in way
= unfriendly TO the slave hOlder on tn
% other hand, Shareholders complained tina
their rights were interfered with, thei
slaves were induced TO abscond, ant
protected within the lines.
These complaints were numerous, lou
and deep, and were serious annoyanc
30 to him, and embarrassing TO the progress
50 of the war that it kept alive spiri
W W hostile to the Government in the State
50 we represented; strengthens the hopes Q
% the Confederates, that, at some day, tn
% Border States would unite with them, an
thus tend TO prOlong the war; and h
[, was of opinion, If thisresolutiOn should b
adopted by Congress and accepted by on
% State, these causes of irritation, and thes
90 hopes, would be removed, and more woul
% be accomplished toward shortening th
o0o war, than could be hoped from the great
60 est victory achieved by Union armies
nj that he made this proposition in goo
90 faith, and desired il to be accepted, il q
20 all, voluntarily and in the same patriot
90 spirit in which IL was made; that eman
90 cipation was a subject exclusively unde
NJ the control Of the States, and must
!. adopted or rejected by each for itself
ie, that he did not claim, nor had this Gov
eminent any right TO coerce them f.
~ that purpose and such was no part +,
ed his purpose in making this proposition
AZ and he wished it TO be clearly understood
IN that he did not expect us there 70 b
prepared to give him, but he hoped "
would take the subject into serious cor
sideration confer with one another an
be then take such course as we felt on
duty, and the interests Of our consiiu
ents required of US.
90 Mr.. Neel Of Missouri, said that in b
90 State Slavery was not considered PEI
4" manent institution that natural caus'
were there in operation which would,
'a' no distant day extinguish il, and he d
not think that this proposition was ne
essary for that; and besides that
he and his friends felt solicitous as 10 q
TO message, on account of the different COZ
structions which the resolution and me
sage had received. The New York n
bune was for IL, and understood it