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WORDS OF TRUMBULL,
WILSON, MCDOUGALL, AND TEN EYCK, IN THE
SENATE--ROMAN COURAGE OF THE HOUSE-- CRITTENDEN'S
STATEMENTS--WAR RESOLUTIONS--BRECKINRIDGE'S
TREASONABLE SPEECH UPON "THE SANCTITY" OF THE
CONSTITUTION--BAKER'S GLORIOUS REPLY-- HIS
MATCHLESS APOSTROPHE TO FREEDOM--HIS
SELF-SACRIFICING DEVOTION AND HEROIC DEATH AT
BALL'S BLUFF
CHAPTER XV.
FREEDOM'S EARLY DAWN.

THADDEUS STEVENS'S STARTLING
UTTERANCES--CAPTURED SLAVES MUST BE FREE
FOREVER--"NO TRUCES WITH THE REBELS"--HIS PROPHECY
AS TO ARMING SLAVES TO FIGHT REBELLION--SECRETARY
CAMERON'S LETTER TOUCHING FUGITIVES FROM
SERVICE--GENERAL FREMONT'S PROCLAMATION OF
CONFISCATION AND EMANCIPATION--ITS EFFECT NORTH
AND SOUTH--JEFF. THOMPSON'S SAVAGE PROCLAMATION
OF RETALIATION--PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S
EMBARRASSMENT--HE PRIVATELY SUGGESTS TO FREMONT
CERTAIN MODIFICATIONS--FREMONT DEFENDS HIS
COURSE--"STRONG AND VIGOROUS MEASURES NECESSARY
TO SUCCESS"--THE PRESIDENT PUBLICLY ORDERS THE
MODIFICATION OF FREMONT'S PROCLAMATION-- THE
MILITARY MIND GREATLY CONFUSED--GENERAL
INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY THE WAR
DEPARTMENT--GENERAL T. W. SHERMAN'S PORT ROYAL
PROCLAMATION--GENERAL WOOL'S SPECIAL AND
GENERAL ORDERS AS TO EMPLOYMENT OF
"CONTRABANDS"-- GENERAL DIX'S PROCLAMATION FOR
REPULSION OF FUGITIVE SLAVES FROM HIS
LINES--HALLECK ORDERS EXPULSION AS WELL AS
REPULSION--HIS LETTER OF EXPLANATION TO FRANK P.
BLAIR--SEWARD'S LETTER TO MCCLELLAN ON
"CONTRABANDS" IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
CHAPTER XVI.
"COMPENSATED GRADUAL EMANCIPATION."
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ATTITUDE--SACRIFICES OF
PATRIOTISM--ASSERTION BY CONGRESS OF ITS
EMANCIPATING WAR-POWERS--THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM
SLOWLY "MARCHING ON"--ABANDONED SLAVES OF
BEAUFORT, S. C.--SECRETARY CAMERON FAVORS ARMING
THEM--THE PRESIDENT'S CAUTIOUS ADVANCES--HE
MODIFIES CAMERON'S REPORT TO CONGRESS ON THE

SUBJECT--THE MILITARY MIND, ALL "AT
SEA"--COMMANDERS GUIDED BY POLITICAL
BIAS--HALLECK'S ST. LOUIS PROCLAMATION, 1862--BUELL'S
LETTER--CONTRARY ACTION OF DIX AND HALLECK, BUELL
AND HOOKER, FREMONT AND DOUBLEDAY--LINCOLN'S
MIDDLE COURSE--HE PROPOSES TO CONGRESS,
COMPENSATED GRADUAL EMANCIPATION--INTERVIEW
BETWEEN MR. LINCOLN AND THE BORDER-STATE
REPRESENTATIVES--INTERESTING REMARKS OF THE
PRESIDENT--MR. LINCOLN BETWEEN TWO FIRES--VIEWS,
ON COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION, OF MESSRS. NOELL,
CRISFIELD, MENZIES, WICKLIFFE, AND HALL--ROSCOE
CONKLING'S JOINT RESOLUTION, ADOPTED BY BOTH
HOUSES--HOOKER'S "CAMP BAKER" ORDER--MARYLAND
FUGITIVE--SLAVE HUNTERS PERMITTED TO SEARCH THE
CAMP--UNION SOLDIERS ENRAGED--SICKLES ORDERS THE
SLAVE HUNTERS OFF--DOUBLEDAY'S DISPATCH AS TO "ALL
NEGROES" ENTERING HIS LINES--TO BE "TREATED AS
PERSONS, NOT AS CHATTELS"
CHAPTER XVII.
BORDER--STATE OPPOSITION.
APPOINTMENT OF A SELECT COMMITTEE, IN HOUSE, ON
GRADUAL EMANCIPATION-- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
EMANCIPATION ACT--THE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL MESSAGE
OF APPROVAL--GEN. HUNTER'S EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION--PRESIDENT LINCOLN PROMPTLY
RESCINDS IT BY PROCLAMATION--HIS SOLEMN AND
IMPASSIONED APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF THE
BORDER-STATES--HE BEGS THEIR CONSIDERATION OF
GRADUAL COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION--GEN.
WILLIAMS'S ORDER EXPELLING RUNAWAY NEGROES FROM
CAMP, AT BATON ROUGE--LIEUT.-COL. ANTHONY'S ORDER
EXCLUDING FUGITIVE-SLAVE HUNTERS FROM "CAMP
ETHERIDGE"--GEN. MCCLELLAN'S FAMOUS "HARRISON'S

LANDING LETTER" TO THE PRESIDENT--"FORCIBLE
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY" AND "A CIVIL AND MILITARY
POLICY"--SLAVEHOLDING BORDER-STATE SENATORS AND
REPRESENTATIVES AT THE WHITE HOUSE--PRESIDENT
LINCOLN'S ADDRESS TO THEM, JULY, 1862--GRADUAL
EMANCIPATION THE THEME-- COMPENSATION AND
COLONIZATION TO ACCOMPANY IT--THE ABOLITION
PRESSURE UPON THE PRESIDENT INCREASING--HE BEGS
THE BORDER STATESMEN TO RELIEVE HIM AND THE
COUNTRY IN ITS PERIL--THEIR VARIOUS RESPONSES
CHAPTER XVIII.
FREEDOM PROCLAIMED TO ALL.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PERSONAL APPEAL TO COLORED
FREEMEN--HE BEGS THEM TO HELP IN THE COLONIZATION
OF THEIR RACE--PROPOSED AFRICAN COLONY IN CENTRAL
AMERICA--EXECUTIVE ORDER OF JULY 2,
1862--EMPLOYMENT OF NEGROES FOR MILITARY PURPOSES
OF THE UNION--JEFF. DAVIS RETALIATES--MCCLELLAN
PROMULGATES THE EXECUTIVE ORDER WITH ADDENDA OF
HIS OWN--HORACE GREELEY'S LETTER TO PRESIDENT
LINCOLN--THE LATTER ACCUSED OF "SUBSERVIENCY" TO
THE SLAVE HOLDERS--AN "UNGRUDGING EXECUTION OF
THE CONFISCATION ACT" DEMANDED--MR. LINCOLN'S
FAMOUS REPLY--HIS "PARAMOUNT OBJECT, TO SAVE THE
UNION, AND NOT EITHER TO SAVE OR DESTROY
SLAVERY"-- VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE OF A RELIGIOUS
DEPUTATION FROM CHICAGO-- MEMORIAL ASKING FOR
IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION, BY PROCLAMATION--THE
PRESIDENT'S REPLY TO THE DEPUTATION--"THE POPE'S
BULL AGAINST THE COMET"--VARIOUS OBJECTIONS
STATED TENTATIVELY--"A PROCLAMATION OF LIBERTY TO
THE SLAVES" IS "UNDER ADVISEMENT"--THE
PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION ISSUED--ITS POPULAR
RECEPTION--MEETING OF LOYAL GOVERNORS AT

ALTOONA--THEIR STIRRING ADDRESS--HOMAGE TO OUR
SOLDIERS--PLEDGED SUPPORT FOR VIGOROUS
PROSECUTION OF THE WAR TO TRIUMPHANT
END--PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S HISTORICAL RESUME AND
DEFENSE OF EMANCIPATION--HE SUGGESTS TO CONGRESS,
PAYMENT FOR SLAVES AT ONCE EMANCIPATED BY
BORDER STATES-- ACTION OF THE HOUSE, ON
RESOLUTIONS SEVERALLY REPREHENDING AND
ENDORSING THE PROCLAMATION--SUPPLEMENTAL
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION OF JAN. 1, 1863
CHAPTER XIX.
HISTORICAL REVIEW.
COURSE OF SOUTHERN OLIGARCHS THROUGHOUT--THEIR
EVERLASTING GREED AND RAPACITY--BROKEN
COVENANTS AND AGGRESSIVE METHODS--THEIR UNIFORM
GAINS UNTIL 1861--UPS AND DOWNS OF THE TARIFF--FREE
TRADE, SLAVERY, STATES- RIGHTS, SECESSION, ALL PARTS
OF ONE CONSPIRACY--"INDEPENDENCE" THE FIRST OBJECT
OF THE WAR--DREAMS, AMBITIONS, AND PLANS OF THE
CONSPIRATORS-- LINCOLN'S FAITH IN NORTHERN
NUMBERS AND ENDURANCE--"RIGHT MAKES MIGHT"-- THE
SOUTH SOLIDLY-CEMENTED BY BLOOD--THE 37TH
CONGRESS--ITS WAR MEASURES--PAVING THE WAY TO
DOWNFALL OF SLAVERY AND REBELLION
CHAPTER XX.
LINCOLN'S TROUBLES AND TEMPTATIONS.
INTERFERENCE WITH SLAVERY FORCED BY THE
WAR--EDWARD EVERETT'S OPINION-- BORDER-STATES
DISTRUST OF LINCOLN--IMPOSSIBILITY OF SATISFYING
THEIR REPRESENTATIVES--THEIR JEALOUS SUSPICIONS
AND CONGRESSIONAL ACTION-- PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE OF

KINDLY WARNING--STORMY CONTENTION IN CONGRESS--
CRITTENDEN'S ARGUMENT ON "PROPERTY" IN
MAN--BORDER--STATES "BID" FOR MR. LINCOLN--THE
"NICHE IN THE TEMPLE OF FAME" OFFERED
HIM--LOVEJOY'S ELOQUENT COUNTERBLAST--SUMNER
(JUNE, 1862,) ON LINCOLN AND EMANCIPATION --THE
PRESIDENT HARRIED AND WORRIED--SNUBBED BY BORDER
STATESMEN-- MCCLELLAN'S
THREAT--ARMY-MISMANAGEMENT--ARMING THE
BLACKS--HOW THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WAS
WRITTEN--CABINET SUGGESTIONS--MILITARY
SITUATION--REBEL ADVANCE NORTHWARD--LINCOLN, AND
THE BREAST-WORKS-- WASHINGTON AND BALTIMORE
MENACED--ANTIETAM, AND THE FIAT OF FREEDOM--
BORDER-STATE DENUNCIATION--KNIGHTS