The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-12
A BIT OF HISTORY.
The First Sketch of President Lincolns
 Emancipation Proclamation.

concerning this meeting we quote as
 follows: Further conference was had
 on organizing negro regiments, but
 Lincoln decided that the moment had
 not yet arrived when this policy could
 be safely entered upon. Writes Chase:
 The impression left upon my mind by the whole discussion was, that while
 the President thought that the organi-
 zation, equipment and arming of
 negroes like other soldiers would
 be productive of more evil than good.
 he was not unwilling that command CTS
 should, at their discretion, arm, for
 purely defensive purposes, slaves com l ing within their lines But on the
 kindred policy of emancipation the
 President had reached decision
 which appears to have been in advance
 of the views of his entire Cabinet.
 Probably greatly to their surprise, he
 read to them the following draft of a
 proclamation warning the rebels of the
 pains and penalties of the Confscation
 act, and while renewing his tender of
 compensation to loyal States which
 would adopt gradual abolishment, ad-
 ding a summary military order, as
 commander-in-chief, declaring free
 the slaves of all States which might be
 in rebellion on January 1, 1861.
 The text of this first draft of the
 Emancipation Proclamation is here
 printed for the first time: In pursu-
 ance of the sixth section of the act of
 Congress entitled, ''An act to suppress
 insurrection and to punish treason and
 rebellion, to seize and confiscate prop
 erty of rebels, and for other purposes, ," approved July IF, 1862, and which act and the joint resolution explanatory thereof are herewith published, 1, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the con- temptation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, ,countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion, or any rebellion against the Government of the United States, and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures, as within and by said sixth section provided.
 "'And hereby make known that it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of practical measure for rendering pecuniary aid to the free choice or rejection of any and all States, which may then be recognizing and practically sustaining the author ity of the United States, and which | may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, 1 gradual abolishment of slavery within such State or States; that the object | is to practically restore, thenceforward | to be maintained, the constitutional | relation between the General | Government and each and all | the States wherein that relation | is now suspended or disturbed; | and that for this object the war, as it | has been, will be prosecuted. And as a fit and necessary military measure for effecting this object, l, as Com Of the Army and Navy 1 of the United States, do order and de- | clare that on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand | eight hundred and sixty-three, all per sons held as slaves within any State or States wherein the constitutional au- thority of the United States shall not then be practically recognized, sub- mitted to and maintained, shall then, thenceforward, and forever be free.'
 'Of the Cabinet proceedings which followed the reading of this momentous document we have unfortunately only very brief memoranda. Every mem- Der of the council was, we may infer, bewildered by the magnitude and bold ness Of the proposal. The sudden con- Sideration of this critical question re- veals to us with vividness the differ ence in mental reach, readiness and decision between the President and his advisers. Only two of 5he number gave the measure their Inreserved concurrence, even after It is strange that one of these was the cautious Attorney-Gen- eral, the representative of the con- 5ervative faction of the slave-holding State of Missouri, and that the mem per who opposed the measure as a whole, and proposed to achieve he result indirectly through the scattered and divided action of local in military departments, vas the anti-slavery Secretary of the Treasury, MT. Chase, representing perhaps more nearly than any other the Abolition faction of the free State )f Ohio. All were astonished, except he two to whom it had been mentioned | week before. None of the others lad even considered such step. But rom the mind and will of President lincoln the determination and an- louncement to his Cabinet came al- most as complete in form and certain n intention on that memorable Tues lay of July as when, two months later, was given to the public, or as off .ially proclaimed on the succeeding { New Years Day, an irrevocable execu- i've act"
 
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