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Title: The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ofthe Democratic party of that State—made aspeech on the War to the Senate thereof on the10th of .\ugust, 18C1. After distributing theblame of inciting the War between the Nortlicrnand the Southern ultrafl, dilating on the re-Bources of the South, and elucidating the no-fighting, anaconda mode of warfare proposed by Gen. Scott, and apparently acceded to by theCabinet, he proceeds: I have said that the war may assume anc)th-er aspect, and be a short and bloody one. Andto such a war—an anti-Slavery war—it seemsto mo we are inevitably drifting. It seems tomo hardly in the power of human wisdom toprevent it. We may commence the war withoutmeaning to interfere with Slavery; but let ushave one or two battles, and get our blood exci-ted, and wo shall not only not restore any moreslavcH, but shall proclaim freedom wherever wego. And it seems to me almost judicial blind-ness on the part of the South that they do notsee that this must bo the inevitable result, ifthe contest ia prolonged.
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•-^ :L))t\^^i-u^t)(^ ^„ ARMY SLAVE-CATCHING PROHIBITED. 257 that the alternative of conceded Dis-union or constrained Emancipationmiglit vet be avoided. His first An-nual Message * cautiously avoided thesubject; but proposed a systematiccolonization—in some territory to beacquired outside of the present limitsof our country—of those Blacks whohad already, or might thereafter, be-come free in consequence of the war.He coolly added: It might be well to consider, too,whether the free colored people already inthe United States could not, so far as indi-viduals may desire, be included in such colo-nization. Congress acceded to this, so far asto appropriate $100,000 in aid of thecolonization as aforesaid of the freed-men of the District of Columbia;which, sum, or most of it, was dulysquandered—to the satisfaction of cer-tain speculators, and the intense, pro-tracted misery of a few deludedBlacks, who were taken to a wretch-ed sand-spit, known as Cow Island,on the coast of Ilayti,

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