The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-12-05

Opposed tt, slavery, Though born IN slave
State and always residing in q slave State and
among sl,iyes, he nevertheless wished them
free, and that the colored race should leave u tne
country. 1t was impossible, he said, for the
two races TO assimilate but by arnaigamatlon
and they could not amalgamate without oegra
dation and decentralization to the white race
The whites might be brought down, but tne
negroes could not be lifted to q much hlghel
plane than they now occupied. He had oeer
8 close 5server of the influence OF slavery OF
the enterprise and welfare OF the country
through long life, had deplored Its effects
and himself had given freedom to MS OWL
slaves, and wished them and their fellows IN
Africa or elsewhere than in the United otates
He was fully convinced that the TWO races
could not live and thrive in social proximity
The result of any attempt to place them on
terms of equality would be strife: contention
and q vicious population, as in Mexico. The
whites might Be debased, but the BLACKS. s.I could
not be elevated, even by the disgusting process
of mixed breeds, which was repugnant to ma
ture and to our moral and better instincts. de
therefore wished System OF deportation 10 70
accompany any scheme of emancipation. Ahese
were also the Presidents views. .....
Mr.. Seward, without expressing an opinion |
on the merits of the question, thought IL wouio
be. we'll to- postpone the whole subject TO q
more auspicious period. If the proclamation
were issued now, it would be received and con-
sidered ais despairings cry-a shrek from and
for the Administration, rather than for free
dom. The President Instantly felt and appre-
ciated the force and propriety of the sugges-
ton. We had experienced serious disasters.
Important results were in the immediate future,
high hopes we're entertained from army opera
tions under Halleck and Pope, who had Just
taken the direction of military affairs. The
President at once closed his portfolio and sns-
pended his proclamation and all Iurther pro-
ceedings on the subject of emancipation l DO
not recollect that it was again alluded to IN
Cabinet until after the battle of Antietam,
which took place on the 7th of september-six
weeks later"
As the disasters of the army under McClei-
Ian were not retrieved by Pope and Haileck,
the subject was not reconsidered until after the
battle of Sharpsburg, when the preliminary
proclamation was issued On that occasion
'she expressed the sense of the responsibility
he was taking, both to himself and the coun-
try. It had oppressed him"-and we'll 1t
might. It was the subversion OF the Constl-
tuition. Mr.. Welles calls it.: "a despotic act
in the cause of the Union, and may add, OF
freedom. we ledllZc Io-udy 1nS ooio Va ~sS
dom the despotic act has inaugurated; But
there was more in that act than any other IN
our history. 1t was the first act of confiscation
of property-and the evils thereof will De
seen and felt for thousand years.
After the proclamation was issued Mr.. Lin
coin was earnest in his efforts to inaugurate
scheme for deporting the negroes. He consld-
cred deportation an integral part of his eman-
cipation scheme, and he adhered to it till his
death This, however, failed, and it may be,
to the injury of both races. Says Mr. Welies {:
e.Following the preliminary proclamation,
and, as part of the plan, was the question OF
deporting and colonizing the colored race;
This was a part of the Presidents scheme, and
had occupied his mind some time before the
project of emancipation was adopted, although
the historians, biographers and commentators
have made slight, if any, allusion to it The
President, however, and portion OF his Ca6i-
net considered them inseparable, and that de.
portation should accompany and be part OF
the emancipation movement
1t will be source of eternal regret that the
author of this great and revolutionary measure
did not live to regulate its results.