Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1864-09-16
The Presidents Defense of the Eman.
cipatiOn Policy.


ports recent conversation with President
Lincoln upon politics and the war, in which
the president stated and defended his po-
sition with great force. The president
said to Judge Mills:
II don't think 1t is personal vanity or
ambition, though l am not free from these
infermities, but | cannot but feel that the
veal or woe of this great nation viii be
decided in November. There is no pro-
gram offered by any wing Of the demo-
cratic party but that must result in the
permanent destruction of the Union" M
"BuL Mr.. President, Gen. Mcclellan is
in favor Of crushing out this rebellion by
force. He will be the Chicago candidate
"Sir," said the president, "she slightest
knowledge Of arithmetic will prove to any
man that the rebel armies cannot be de-
stroyed with democratic strategy. 1t
would sacrifice all The white men of the
North to do it. There are now in the SER
vice of the United States near 100000
able-bodied colored men, most Of them un-
der arms, defending and acquiring Union
territory. The democratic strategy de-
mands that these forces be disbanded, and
that the masters be conciliated by restor-
ing them to slavery. The black men who
now assist Union prisoners to escape, they
are to be converted into our enemies in the
vain hope Of gaining the good will lof their
masters. We shall have to fight two la
tions instead Of one You cannot concili-
ate the South if you guaranty TO them ul-
innate success; and the experience of the
present war proves their success is inevi-
table il you fling the compulsory labor of
millions of black men into their side of
the scale. Win you give our enemies
such military advantages as insure success,
and then depend on coaSing, fattery and
concession to get hem back into the Union?
abandon all the posts now garrisoned by
black men, take 100000 men from our side
and put them in the battle field against us,
and we would be compelled to abandon
The war in three weeks. We have to hold
territory in inclement and sickly places;
where are the democrats to do this? 1t
was free fight, and the field was open to
the war democrats to put down this rebel
lion by fighting against hot master and
slave long before the present policy was in
augura,ed. There have been men base
enough 10 propose TO me 10 reiurnio 10 slave
ry the black warriors of Port Hudson and
Olustee, and thus win the respects Of the
masters they fought. Should do so,
should deserve to be damned in time and
eternity. Come what will viii keep my
faith aith. friend and Zoe. Ny enemies
pretend ] am now carrying on this war for
the sole purpose Of abolition. So long as
am president, ii shall be carried on for
The sole purpose of restoring the Union.
But no human power can subdue this re-
beilion without the use Of the emancipation
policy and every other policy calculated TO
weaken the moral and physical forces Of
the rebellion. Freedom has given US 200,-
600 men raised on southern soil. 1t will
give US more yet, Just SO much it has
substracted from the enemy, and instead
of alternating the South, there are now evil
dences of fraternal feeling growing up
between our men and the rank and file of
49, g ~
the rebel soldiers Let my enemies prove
to the country that the destruction OF sla-
very is not necessary to restoration OF
the Union. / viii abide the issue"
t u MCCLELLAN m THE ARMY.-The fol.
lowing is an extract from private letter
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