Year: 1862

vent iloW mtcn Dettef 10 tnlS save Ine mon
ey which else we sink forever in the war How
much better to do it while we can, lest the war
ere long render us pecuniarily unable to do it |!
How much better for you, as seller, and the
nation, as buyer, to sell out and buy out that
without which the war could never have been,
than to sink both the thing to be sold and the
price of it in cutting one anothers throats
do not speak of emancipation at once, but
of decision at once to cmantipate gradually
Room in South America for colonization can be
obtained cheaply, and in abundance, and when
numbers shall be large enough to be company
and encouragement for one another, the freed
people will not be so reluctant to go.


! am pressed with a difficulty not yet mem
tioned--one which threatens division among
those who united, are none too strong. An
instance of it is known to you. Gen Hunter
| is an honest man. He was, and | hope still is,
| my friend. I value him none the less for his a.
greeing with me in the general wish that all
men everywhere could be freed. He proclaim
ed all men free within certain States, and repu-
dated the proclamation. He expected more
good ard less harm from the measure than |
could believe would follow. Yet in repudia-
ting it, gave dissatisfaction, if not offence, to
many whose support the country cannot afford
to lose. And this is not the end Of it. The
pressure in this direction is still upon me and
| is increasing. BY conceding what now ask
you can relieve me, and, much more, can re-
lieve the country in this important point.
| Upon these considerations have again beg
ged your attention to the message OF March
last. Before leaving the Capitol consider and
! discuss it among yourselves. You are patriots
and statesmen, and as such / pray you consider
this proposition, and at the least commend it
to the consideration of your State and people.
AS you would pcrpetuate popular government
for the best people in the world, beseech you
that you do in no wise omit tlik Our common
country is in great peril, demandi the lofti-
est views and bodest action to BRING speedy
relief Once relieved, its form Of government
is saved to the world; its beloved history and
cherished memories are vim Heated, and its
happy future fully assured and rendered incon-
ceivably grand. To you, more than to@any
others, the privilege is given to assure that
happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link
your own names Herewith forever.


| After the conclusion Of these rsmarks some
conversation was had between the President
and several members of the delegation from
the DOruef StatcS, III WHICH IL was represented
that -.,..s. ~ l.
| in so great matter as that brought to their
notice in the foregoing address while as yet the
Congress had taken no step beyond the passage
of a resolution, expressive rather Of senti-
ment than presenting substantial and reliable
basis of action.


The President acknowledged the force of this
view, and admitted that the Border States were
entitled to expect substantial pledge of pecu'
mary aid as the condition of taking into con-
sideration proposition so important in ire
lations to their social system.


1t was further represented, in the Confer
ence that the people of the Border States were
interested in knowing the great Importance
which the President attached to the policy il
question, while it was equally due to the coun
try to the President and to themselves that thC


Representatives of the Border Slaveholdins
States should publicly announce the motive


under which they were called to act and th'


considerations of public policy urged upon then


and their constituents by the President.


With view to such a statement of their pos
iton, the members thus addressed met in coun


Gil to deliberate on the reply they should maxi


to the President, and, as the result of com
parison of opinion among themselves, they de


ternined upon the adoption of a majority ant


minority answer.