... who shall not have been disloyal, shall be compensated for them, at the same rates as is provided for States adopting abolishment of slavery, but in such way, that no slave shall be twice accounted for. "ARTICLE — . Congress may appropriate money,... Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs - Page 2by United States. Department of State - 1862Full view - About this book
| Alexander Saxton - History - 2003 - 424 pages
...emancipation plan to be completed at least by 1900; and 2) authorize appropriations for colonizing freed persons 'with their own consent at any place or places without the United States.' More than a third of the 16-page message was devoted to arguments in support of this plan: Richardson,... | |
| Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...recommended an amendment authorizing Congress to "appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States." For anyone in Congress who hoped that the Emancipation Proclamation signaled the end of Lincoln's buyout... | |
| V. Neil Wyrick - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 132 pages
...continued cold to the cry for peace, he must have considered a truth he had spoken more than once: "Without slavery, the rebellion could never have existed. Without slavery, it could not continue." The shame of slavery in the nation's capital came to an end when Lincoln signed the District of Columbia... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...accounted for. "ARTICLE — . Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide for colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any...policy, in regard to slavery, and the African race among us. Some would perpetuate slavery; some would abolish it suddenly, and without compensation ;... | |
| Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...compensated for them. . . ." (3) "Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States."92 In proposing these amendments, Lincoln was trying to give an antislavery thrust to the Constitution... | |
| David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...(despite such evidence as President Lincoln's statement in his message to Congress on December i, 1862: "Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue").28 David Blight's magisterial study of the Civil War in American memory shows that while... | |
| Clint Johnson - History - 2007 - 288 pages
...In his 1863 State of the Union address to Congress, Lincoln proposed appropriations for "colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States." Lincoln funded experimental colonies in Haiti and what is now Panama and Belize, all of which failed... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 pages
...twice accounted for. "Article . "Congress may appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any...slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slaven' it could not continue. Among the friends of the Union there is great diversity, of sentiment,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...twice accounted for. ARTICLE — Congress may appropriate money and otherwise provide for colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any...length. Without slavery, the rebellion could never 68 69 have existed ; without slavery, it could not continue. Among the friends of the Union there is... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1863 - 860 pages
...for. '"Article. — Congress may appropriate money and otherwise provide for colonizing free coloured persons, with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States.' " The Message then proceeded to discuss these proposed Articles at considerable length. We need only... | |
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