North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-10-26
Lincoln's Terms of settlement.


| LincOln's Terms of Settlement
Ertract from Hon. G. T. CARTS Speech,
Sept. 30th, 1864
Mr.. Lincolh is candidate for re- election ;
and We have ulder his own hand, since he
became candidate for re elccticn, direct,
authentic, and perfectly plain declaration of
the conditions on which he will consent to
receive the people Of the South back into the
Union. 1t is in these words /;
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WAsHINGT N, July Is, 1864.
To all 10 lohom 1t may concern:
ANY proposition which embraces the res
to'a;ion OF peace, the integrity of the whole
Umon, and the abandonment of siaeery. and
phich comes by, and Nth an duthorifg that
can centrGi 'he arnlies noW at wdr against
The United States. ictH be Jeceired and CON
sidered by che e.recutire government Of The
United States, and will be met by liberal
terms oD other substantial and coIatorial
points, and the bearer or bearers thereof
shall have save conduct both ways.
ABRAHAM LANcoTN.
have no right to impute to Mr.. Lincoln
purposes which he has no. expressed, or res
erva,ions which he has not made | hvae
! seen great many ingenius explanations
written by his political friends, to show how
the President did not say that Re would not
receive and ACT upon other propositions which
he did not mention. But think if were
10 read that paper to jury of twelve intellt
gent men, who knew tie subject to which it
relates, and were TO ask them to infer from
1t that Mr.. Lincoln did not mean to make
| the aband"nueut of slavery one of three con-
dittons on which lie is willing TO have a resto
ration Of the Union, should provoke very
significant smile. As plainly as The English
language can speak. he couples together ':the
restoration OF PEACE" :" the integrity of the
whole Cnion,' and 60 the abandonment of
slavery" as the three things which must be
presented to him in one proposition, by The
power that now controls the Southern armies
prUpos ton, he says, embracing these three
things, viii be met 10y the executive govern,
ment of The Unlsed States-holo? By liberal
terms On those points Not at all they
VIII be met by liberal terms on "Other" sub
stantlal and collateral points," The Ian
guage is carefully framed to exclude the idea
that there can be any more hterality about
the point OF slavery, than about The rcatO:a-
ton ot peace and Tie Integrity of The Union.
The one Is a. much a fixed purpose with Mr..
LIneoIn As the TWO others. He knows that
both sections OF the country have so under
Stood him, and 10 this day he has never ut
tered a word to correct tnat impression
wish to correct 1t.
! Here, then, is position which "goes
whole bars length beyond the reservation to
! the Supreme Court of the question what has
become OF slavery in the progress of the war.
/ Speakeg in paper addressed TO every man
on earth, who can read English aud has anv
concern IN knowing bis views, and dealing al
/ the same time with the restoration of peace
and the preservation of the integrity of the
! Union. Mr.. Lincoln makes positive require
ment OF the abandonment of slavery as an es-
sentiaI feature of anv proposition on which h.
will treat. He did not mean TO - palter in
double sense" lie meant te be understood
He had been under TODD. The issue is made
up between him and the Democratic party,
on this point. If he changes that issue he
comes over 10 Us, so far as this matter.is con-
! carnnA Fur friopls Iot; H.
that the Democratic party, spe akiug through
General Mcclellan, Its candidate, while it
demands Ike restoration of peace, and the
integrity Of the Union has not made the con
ditiUn of the abandonment OF slavery essen
tial either tn peace or Cniun. There can be
no mistake about Gcncr al McClellan's posi-
ton any more than about Mr. Lincoln's -
We ask, says General Mcclellan, nothing but
tae Union. We, says Mr.. Lincoln, demand
with the Union the abolition Of slavery
YOu of the South, says the enc, can come IN
to the Union as you were before you left
You can came into the Union, says the other,
but you must abandon slavery before your
Proposition to return can be Considered
Now let us inquire calmly, which Of these
courses Of acton is likely to give peace to
ihls country-present and Ieasting peace
For the attainment Of Mr.. Linc"n's object
II is but rational to suppose that absolute and
complete suhjugation ot The white race is es
sential. Ii II not within the limits Of proba-
b'lily that the people OF the Southern States
will consent to ahnish slavery at our dcra-
tlon, until The white race here is so reduced
that its consent will be practically unmpor
Iaht. and will therefore cease to be necessary.
The consequences will be that you will have
on your hands, for government, Country as
large as Europe, in which the whites will be
unwilling, if they are able, and unable If they
are willing, 10 Cooperate IN Carrying on clvll
g"vernmtn You must govern the country
by the sword until you can INTRODUCE new
white population, and eV' n then yru must
const anlly interfere to settle the question: as