Year: 1862

Room in South America for colonization
can be obtained cheaply, and in abundance
and when numbers shall be large enou h
to be company and encouragement for one
another, the freed people will not be so
reluctant to go.


am pressed with difficulty not yet
mentioned-one which threatens division
among those who, united, are none too
strong. An instance of it is known to
you. General Hunter is an honest man.
lie was, and still hope is, my friend
value him none the less for his agreeing
with me in the general wish that all men
everywhere could be freed He proclaim.
ed all men free within certain States, and
lrcpudiated the proclamation. He ex-
pected more good and less harm from the
measure than could believe would follow.
Yet, in repudiating it, [ gave dissatisfac.
ton, if not offcnse, to many whose sup
port the country cannot afford to lose.-
And this is not the end Of it. The pres
sure in this direction is still upon me and
is increasing. BY conceding what I now
ask, you can relieve me, and much more,
can relieve the country in this important
point.


Upon these considerations | have again
begged 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 con-
sideration of your States and people. AS
you would perpetuatc popular government
for the best people in the world, l beseech
you that you do in no wise omit this. Our
common country is in great peril, demand
ing the lofticst views and boldest action to
bring a speedy relief. Once relieved, its
form of government is saved to the world ;
its beloved history and cherished memo
ries are vindicatcd, and its happy future
fully assured and rendered ineonceivably
grand. To you, more than to any others,
the privilege is given to assure that happi
ness and swell that grandeur, and to link
your own names herewith forever.
At the conclusion of these remarks
some conversation was had between the
President and several members of the del
| egations from the Border States, in whcI
it was represented that these States could
not be expected to move in so great 6
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 sentiment than presenting q substan
tlal and reliable basis of action


The President acknowledged the force
of this view, and admitted that the Border
States were entitled to expect a substantial
pledge of pccuniary aid as the condition
of taking into consideration a proposition
so important in its relations to their soca
system.


1t was further represented, in the con.
ference, that the people of the Border
States were interested in knowing the great
Importance which the President attached
to the policy in question, while it was
equally due to the country, to the Presi
dent, and to themselves, that the represen,
tatives of the border slaveholding States
should publicly announce the motives un.
der which they were called to act, and the
considerations of public policy urged upon
them and their constituents by the Presi
dent.


With view to such statement of theil
positioH, the members thus addressed met
in council to deliberate on the reply they
should make to the President, and as the
result of comparison of opinions among
themselves, they determined upon the
adoption of majority and minority an.
swer,-NutionM AtetHgoacr.