Author: Henry Watterson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780331993165

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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln His idea of paying the South for the slaves did not by any means originate with the pro posal he was prepared to make at Fortress Monroe. It had been all along in his mind. He believed the North equally guilty with the South for the existence of slavery. He clearly understood that the irrepressible conflict was a conflict of systems, not merely a sectional and partisan quarrel. He was a considerate man, abhorring proscription. He wanted to leave the South no right to claim that the North, finding slave-labor unremunerative, had sold its negroes to the South and then turned about and by force of arms confiscated what it had unloaded at a profit. He recog nized slavery as property. In his message to Congress of December, 1862, he proposed payment for-the slaves, elaborating a scheme in detail and urging it with copious and co gent argument. The people of the South, said he, addressing a war Congress at that moment in the throes of bloody strife with the South, are not more responsible for the original introduction of this property than are the people of the North, and, when it is re membered how unhesitatingly We all use cot ton and sugar and share the profits of dealing in them, it may not be quite safe to say that the' South has been more responsible than the North for its continuance. This is the language not only of justice, but of far-reaching statesmanship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Abraham Lincoln (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Watterson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln His idea of paying the South for the slaves did not by any means originate with the pro posal he was prepared to make at Fortress Monroe. It had been all along in his mind. He believed the North equally guilty with the South for the existence of slavery. He clearly understood that the irrepressible conflict was a conflict of systems, not merely a sectional and partisan quarrel. He was a considerate man, abhorring proscription. He wanted to leave the South no right to claim that the North, finding slave-labor unremunerative, had sold its negroes to the South and then turned about and by force of arms confiscated what it had unloaded at a profit. He recog nized slavery as property. In his message to Congress of December, 1862, he proposed payment for-the slaves, elaborating a scheme in detail and urging it with copious and co gent argument. The people of the South, said he, addressing a war Congress at that moment in the throes of bloody strife with the South, are not more responsible for the original introduction of this property than are the people of the North, and, when it is re membered how unhesitatingly We all use cot ton and sugar and share the profits of dealing in them, it may not be quite safe to say that the' South has been more responsible than the North for its continuance. This is the language not only of justice, but of far-reaching statesmanship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.