The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-07
The Truth OF HISTORY.
Lincoln Never Offered CONDENSATION FOL
SIaVes---Sacks Up Hon, j. n. Reagan.

Lincoln Never Offered COMPENSATION for
SaVes--Sacks Up Hon. j, n. Reagan.
70 the Editor Of The Post,
Hampstead, Texas, April 5.-The writer
read the able article written by Hon. john
II. Reagan In The Post of this morning
with the greatest interest and fully confirms
the truth OF history" as shown In tho
article concerning the question; 'DiJ
President Lincoln offer to pay for the value
Of slave property at the Hampton Roads
conference February 3, 1865, where an ef,
fort was made for peace II the Confcderptcs
would stop the war; Judge Reagan has
answered The question truly aud that Pres
ldent Lincoln never hinted at, much less
made any such proposition.
Perhaps the writer can give future his
torlahs clew TO the way this foolish state
meut may have started and to follow up the
| clew may prove valuable historical un-
published record
10 go back many years before the war
was ever thought OF a crowd OF aboltlOnsls
consisting OF LoveJoy, Garrison, Wendell
Ihilups, Theodore Parker Fred Douglass
and others started and kept up great
agitation In several OF the Eastern States
OF the Union tor the abolition OF slavery In
: no Southern States. They all Ia their
speeches used violent and Incorporate
ana when the bred Scott decision was made
by the supreme court Of the United states
that fugitive slaves escaping from a SOUTH.
ern state to Northern state could legally
be returned to their owners, II made great
excitement throughout the Northern states
aud the 0bnlltlonlsts redouhlcd their efforts
TO exasperate the people Of the South, call,
Ing slavery "A covenant with hell' and
other such expressions. The greatest actlfs
ity Of the war Of words extended from 1880
to the Charleston convention or 1850 When
the National convention met to nomlnate
candidates for president and Vice president
Of the United States. II Is useless for the
writer to review that exciting period Of the
conntry's history, for II would tabe. TOO
much space In The Post The result OF the
convention WAS the nomination Of Abraham
Lincoln as candidate for president and the
Southern delegates. fearing the teachings
81 the nbOitlonlsis would sweep the coui
try, and nearly all the southern delegates
fore The nomination, the result was mt
frst whlsperings or great sectional war
between the Northern and southern states
OF the Union; and when Fort sumter ID
Charleston hArbor was nred upon the whrl
wind OF the great war started. fhcl
was stated which has never been denied:
that Lincoln stated 10 several southern del
egates after his nomination that ne wouln
not interfere with The Institution OF slaVer1
IL elected. giving as his reason that the
constitution 81 rue United States recognized
One OF the Richmond. Va, papers In
commenting on the assertion made by LIN
coin, hInted that he was hrst-class lawyer
aud that he knew the constitution protect.
| ca property etc, and that Lincoln meant
| that II the people Of the North desired the
slaves freed they must compensate the
owners. Here Is whore the whole story
about compensation for slave PfopeTly
started, which was nearly four years be-
fore the Hampton Roads convention IN The
/ winter OF 1865. a few months before hostll
| tiles ceased between the Northern ana
/ Southern armies.
II the STUDENTS 81 history viii get hold
Of the full proceedings Of the Charleston
\ convention Of 1850 and follow np the crew
/ herein given the resuit Will Doubtless snow
/ rhe faistg Of the statements thst President
! Lincoln ever offered 10 pay for the slhNrs
| ~ war ceased IN el5 and fully confirms
4 tho Hampton Roads conference that Lincoln
could never have made any such oner y
/ secure peace, 80
! The write- well remembers that evcltinf
| period Of the history Of our country pu