The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-09-19
var. GREELEY'S ssPLAN OF AID.
.BUSTMENT."
Full Tect of Horace Greeleyis Letter to
President Lincoln lsclOsing his
Plan of adjustment.
New YORK, July z, 1864.


Ny DEAR SRI venture to inclose you a
letter aud telegraphic dispatch that 1 re-
ceived yesterday from our irrepressible
friend, Colorado Jewett, at Niagara Falls.
L think they deserve attention. OF course
| do not indorse JeWett's positive averment
that his friends at the falls have full pow
ers' from j. D., though do not doubt that
he thinks they have. | let that statement
stand, as simply evidencing the anxiety of
the Confederates everywhere for peace. SO
much is beyond doubt.
And, therefore. | venture to remind You
that our bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying
country, also longs for peace-shudders at
the prospect of fresh cOnscriptions, of fur
Their wholesale devastations, and of new
rivers of human blood; and a widespread
conviction that the government and its prom
inent supporters arc not anxious for peace,
and do not improve prOffered opportunities
to achieve it, is doing great harm now, and
is morally certain, unless removed, to do far
greater in the approaching elections.
1t is not enough that we desire true and
lasting peace; we ought to demonstrate and
establish tie truth beyond cavil.
The fact that A. III. Stephens was not per-
mitted year ago, to visit aud confer with
the authorities at Washington has done
harm. which the tone of the National Con-
vention at Baltimore is not calculated to
counterfeit.
/ entreat you. in your own time and man
ner, to submit overtures for pacificatiOn To
the Southern insurgents, which the Impair
tial must pronounce frank and generous if
only with view to the momentous election
soon to occur in North Carolina and of the
draft to be enforced in the free States. This
should be done at once. i would give the
safe conduct required by the rebel ENJOYS
at Niagara, upon their parole to avoid OBJ
servation, anti to refrain from all commune
cation with their sympathiZers in the loyal
States; ut you may see reasons for declin-
ing it. But whether through them or 9TH
erwise, do not. entreat you, fail to make
the Southern people comprehend that you,
and all of US are anxious for peace, and pre-
pared to grant liberal terms. l venture to
suggest the following:
PLAN OF ADJUSTMENT.
l. The Union is restored and declared
perpetual.
2 Slavery is utterly and forever abolished
throughout the same.
3. A complete amnesty for all political
offenses, with the restoration of all the in
habitants of each State to the privileges of
citizens of the United States.
4. The Union to pay four hundred million
dollars in five per cent. United States stock
to the late slave States, loyal and secession
alike, to be apportioned pro rata acc riding
to their slave population respectively, by
the census of 1860, in compensation for the
losses of their loyal citizens by the abolition
of slavery. Each State to be entitled to its
quota upon the ratification by its Legisla-
ture of this adjustment The bonds to be
aforesaid.
6. The slave States to be entitled hence
forth TO repres entation in the House on the
basis of their total. instead of their Federal
population, THE whole being now free.
6. A national Convention TO be assembled
so soon as may be- to ratify this adjustment,
and to make such changes in the COnstitu-
ton as may be deemed advisable.
Mr.. President, | fear you do not realize
how intently the people desire any peace
consistent with the national integrity and
honor. and how joyously they would hail
its achievement and and bless its authors.
With the United States stocks worth but 40
cents in gold per dollar, and drafting about
to commence on the third million of Union
soldiers, can this be wondered at?
do not say that just peace is now "a
tainable, though believe it to be So But
do say that frank offer by you to the in
surgents of terms which the impartial say
ought to be accepted, will, at the worst prove
an immense and sorely needed advantage to
the national cause. IL may save us from a
Northern insurrectiOn.
Yours. truly,
HORACE GREELEY.
| Hon. A. LINCOLN. President, Washington,
DC.
P. S.-Even though it should be deemed
/ to naaLa offer of farrns tn the