The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-30

bnouiu oreooiNOos " enS "V"es oS0N. Set
chase the slaves therein At q far vaius.aon
This remarkabie proposal mas not recoiVeo ths
attention which IT deserves, prooaoiy oeceuee
although IL mot with the approval OF OonetesS
1t was not accepted by any slayeholding state
"Irecommend the adoption OF . Joint resolution
oy your honorable bodies Whioh snaii no SUP
stantaily az fonoWs: resolved, Thattne united
STATES ought 70 cooperate with any sCate "nion
may aoopt Graoual aooiisnmeht Oh siaNery'
erVinR 70 such otato poouhi"iy eu' W
DO used oy such state. IN hp uiscre
ton, TO compensate Tor the inconVenienoes
pubic and private produced oy sucn onanEeo Oh
system. IL tho proposition contained IN Ino
resolution does not meet tho approval Oh Con'
gross and the country. there 10 the end; OUT II
does command such approval l oeem l. ol m ~.
portance that the STATES ana poopie lmou
ately interested should DO at once oistinctiy
notined OF the fact 10 maj they may uosin 70
consider whether to accept or re,ooti III Inc
Federal Government would nna us hienost IN
terest in such q measure, as one OF the most et-
ncient means OF self preservation. Inc ie.oers
OF the existing Instruction entertain the nope
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on July ~, leo2.a Dill was passed oy congress
TO suppress insurrection, 10 punish treason ana
reoeiion' ana 70 seize ana connscate the property
OF repeis. Inc Dill was signed by the PRESIDENT
IL called TOT comments. which ne communicates
in q special message. we mako the following
extract from these because we wish
to Indicate the gradual trend OF MT. Linooins
there IL an unfortunate form of expression rather
than q substantial objection in this. It is
startling to say that Congress can free q slave
within q State, and yet II 1t were said that the
ownership of the slave had first been trans.
ferred to the nation and that Congress had then
liberated him, the difficulty would at once van.
ish. And this is the real case. The traitor against
tho General Government forfeits his slave at
least as Justly as he does apy other property.
and he forfeits both to the Government against
which he offends. The Government, so far as
there can be ownership. thus owns the forfeited
slaves, and the question for Congress with re-
gard to them is: Shall they DO made free or be
sold to new mastersr perceive no objec-
ton to Congress- deciding in advance that
they shall be free. To the high honor of
Kentucky. as I am informed. she has. been
the owner of some slaves by esoheat. and has
sold none. but liberated ali. hope tho same ia
true of some other States. Indeed. I do not be-
lieye IL would be physically possibie for the Gen.
eral Government to return persona 40 circum.
stanced to actual slavery. I believe there would
be physical resistance to IL which could neither
be turned aside by argument nor driven away
BY force. In this Wow I have no objection to
this feature of the bill"
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