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Forced Emancipation.-Purposes of the United States Government at the Com-

mencement of 1862.-Subjugation or Extermination.-The Willing Aid of

United States Congress.-Attempt to legislate the Subversion of our Social

Institutions. Could adopt any Measure Self-Defense would justify.-Sla-

very the Cause of all Troubles, therefore must be removed.-Statements

of President Lincoln's Inaugural.- Declaration of Sumner.-Abolition

Legislation. The Power based on Necessity.-Its Formula.-The System

of Legislation devised.—Confiscation.-How permitted by the Law of Na-

tions.-Views of Wheaton; of J. Q. Adams; of Secretary Marcy; of Chief-

Justice Marshall.-Nature of Confiscation and Proceedings.-Compared

with the Acts of the United States Congress.-Provisions of the Acts.-

Five Thousand Millions of Property involved.-Another Feature of the

Act.-Confiscates Property within Reach.-Procedure against Persons.—

Held us as Enemies and Traitors.-Attacked us with the Instruments of

War and Penalties of Municipal Law.-Emancipation to be secured.-Re-

marks of President Lincoln on signing the Bill.-Remarks of Mr. Adams

compared.-Another Alarming Usurpation of Congress.-Argument for

it.-No Limit to the War-Power of Congress; how maintained.-The

Act to emancipate Slaves in the District of Columbia.-Compensation

promised. Remarks of President Lincoln.-The Right of Property vio-

lated.-Words of the Constitution.-The Act to prohibit Slavery in the

Territories.-The Act making an Additional Article of War.—All Officers

forbidden to return Fugitives.-Words of the Constitution.-The Powers

of the Constitution unchanged in Peace or War.-The Discharge of Fugi-

tives commanded in the Confiscation Act.-Words of the Constitution

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Forced Emancipation concluded.-Emancipation Acts of President Lincoln.—

Emancipation with Compensation proposed to Border States.-Reasons

urged for it. Its Unconstitutionality.-Order of General Hunter.-Re-

voked by President Lincoln.-Reasons.-"The Pressure " on him.-One

Cause of our Secession.-The Time to throw off the Mask at Hand.-

The Necessity that justified the President and Congress also justified Seces-

sion. Men united in Defense of Liberty called Traitors.-Conference of

President Lincoln with Senators and Representatives of Border States.-

Remarks of Mr. Lincoln.-Reply of Senators and Representatives.-Fail-

ure of the Proposition.-Three Hundred Thousand more Men called for.-

Declarations of the Antislavery Press.-Truth of our Apprehensions.—

Reply of President Lincoln.-Another Call for Men.-Further Declarations

of the Antislavery Press.-The Watchword adopted.-Memorial of So-

called Christians to the President.-Reply of President Lincoln.-Issue of

the Preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation.-Issue of the Final Proc-

lamation. The Military Necessity asserted.-The Consummation verbally

reached.-Words of the Declaration of Independence.-Declarations by

the United States Government of what it intended to do.-True Nature of

the Party unveiled.-Declarations of President Lincoln.-Vindication of

the Sagacity of the Southern People.-His Declarations to European Cab-

inets.-Object of these Declarations.-Trick of the Fugitive Thief.--The

Boast of Mr. Lincoln calmly considered

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Naval Affairs (concluded)-Excitement in the Northern States on the Appear-

ance of our Cruisers.-Failure of the Enemy to protect their Commerce.—

Appeal to Europe not to help the So-called “Pirates."-Seeks Iron-plated

Vessels in England.-Statement of Lord Russell.-What is the Duty of

Neutrals?-Position taken by President Washington.-Letter of Mr. Jef-

ferson.-Contracts sought by United States Government.-Our Cruisers

went to Sea unarmed.-Mr. Adams asserts that British Neutrality was

violated. Reply of Lord Russell.-Rejoinder of Mr. Seward.-Duty of

Neutrals relative to Warlike Stores.-Views of Wheaton; of Kent.-

Charge of the Lord Chief Baron in the Alexandra Case.-Action of the

Confederate Government sustained.-Antecedents of the United States

Government.—The Colonial Commissions.-Build and equip Ships in Eu-

rope.-Captain Conyngham's Captures.-Made Prisoner-Retaliation.—

Numbers of Captures.-Recognition of Greece.-Recognition of South

American Cruisers.-Chief Act of Hostility charged on Great Britain by

the United States Government.-The Queen's Proclamation: its Effect.-

Cause of the United States Charges.-Never called us Belligerents.-Why

not?-Adopts a Fiction.-The Reason.-Why denounce our Cruisers as

"Pirates"?-Opinion of Justice Greer.-Burning of Prizes.-Laws of Mari-

time War.-Cause of the Geneva Conference.-Statement of American

Claims. Allowance.-Indirect Damages of our Cruisers.-Ships trans-

ferred to British Registers.-Decline of American Tonnage.-Decline of

Coasting Tonnage.-Decline of Export of Breadstuffs.-Advance of In-

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