...gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in it's discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.65 He offered no suggestions for the amounts of this "pecuniary aid," and he tried to soften...

...resolution himself, in order to avoid any misconception upon this point. It read as follows: "Besolved: That the United States ought to co-operate with any...public and private, produced by such change of system." Although this language was so general as to apply to all the " slaveholding States," yet from what...

...resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States ought to cooperate with any...public and private, produced by such change of system. April 16, 1862 — Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia The Compromise of 1850 had included...

...of a joint resolution by your honorable bodies, which shall be substantially as follows: Retolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any...inconveniences, public and private, produced by such charge of system. If the proposition contained in the resolution does not meet the approval of Congress...

...attempting to implement gradual abolition. Help would be offered in the form of "pecuniary aid ... to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system." 66 On April 10, Congress responded favorably to the president's proposal by passing the joint resolution....

...resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States ought to cooperate with any...inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.35 On July 12, with Congress set to adjourn, Lincoln invited twenty-nine border-state representatives...