Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . Congress had no right to appropriate a dollarfor the purchase of slaves; that they were unwill-ing to make Delaware guarantee the public faithof the United States; that when the people of Dela-ware desired to abolish slavery within her bordersthey would do so in their way; and intimated thatthe suggestions of saving expense to the people were a bribe, which they scornfully repelled. Amajority of the twenty-one members of the Housepassed this joint resolution; but when it came tothe Senate, on t
Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . Congress had no right to appropriate a dollarfor the purchase of slaves; that they were unwill-ing to make Delaware guarantee the public faithof the United States; that when the people of Dela-ware desired to abolish slavery within her bordersthey would do so in their way; and intimated thatthe suggestions of saving expense to the people were a bribe, which they scornfully repelled. Amajority of the twenty-one members of the Housepassed this joint resolution; but when it came tothe Senate, on the 7th of February, four of its ninemembers voted aye, four voted no, and onewas silent or absent; and so the joint resolutionwent back non-concurred in. This seems to haveclosed the legislative record on the subject. Mr. Lincoln was doubtless disappointed at thefailure to give his plan of compensated gradualabolishment a starting-point by the favorable ac-tion of the State of Delaware. But he did notabandon the project, and his next step was tobring it, through Congress, to the attention of the. EOSCOE CONKLING. In his seat in the Senate. COMPENSATED ABOLISHMENT 209 country and the States interested. On the 6thof March he sent to the Senate and the House ofRepresentatives a special message, recommendingthe adoption of the following joint resolution:Resolved, That the United States ought to cooper-ate with any State which may adopt gradual abol-ishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniaryaid, to be used by such State in its discretion, tocompensate for the inconveniences, public andprivate, produced by such change of system. Hismessage explained that this was merely the pro-posal of practical measures which he hoped wouldfollow. He said: March 6, 1862,p. 1102. The point is not that all the States tolerating slaverywould very soon, if at all, initiate emancipation ; but thatwhile the offer is equally made to all, the more Northernshall, by such initiation, make it certain
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