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R the Linw Ln Nallon• J I..He Founda Tion • llullcoti.n or The Linw ln Nallon• J I..He Founda tion • . • Or. Jt. Cer ald tU ~Murl ,.,-, Edh0r f)ublbh ctf U<th m o nth by T h to l.lnw ln N•lion• l ure Jn... ura n .... C.()mpaDy. f'ort Way n ~. lndiiiDII N umber 1·194 FORT WAYNE, I NDIANA August, 1962 India na's Reaction To Lincoln's Proclamation Of Emancipation F~lilor'" Note: Thla •-rtideo bM.rlnsc the IItle. "1-rooFi~nJ ltcaet ta J OHN (!. ADA)!$ WARNED OF INSUIU!ECT!ON Errumc•IHltiO-'" \\11$ tihol llUbll.o.hf'd In Tltt: /wdiCIIItl '1"~-.dtf!Y J;tnwtry, 1961, (\, "'86 th~n N!llrinttd und('r 1he IIQUT\e th~ In • brodu.ll'l" ("fiiJfl'(l, Lincoln finally yielded to radicnl pressu1·e on Septem­ ''lndl11nn And The Civil War" whieh wat iJUbliaht'd In 19il by th~ ber 22, 1862, and issued his preliminary Proclamation of Jndinnn Ch·U W•r tMl~mnial CommlesJon. On Jo'cbru•ry 3. 100'2 the! ltl'licle waa oublbhetl n third time by 1'hf' lftdiflwapul.i.e Ht:r,rdu umkr Emancipation. Lincoln, from the beginning of his ad­ the title. ''1'he Atomic: !lomb of th~ Civil Wnr." U~1uu•e many 11ub~ ministration, had been the recipient of tnuch advice as ~~erilM:f'tl or /.in!"'Oi~t /..ore h~t.ve not. hfld 1\rte<» t.o th~ a.bo\•e nw-n,kmed to what policy he should purs ue with reference to slavery. 11ublic•riun• the ~trLicle 1.11 bt'fnll J)Ubll&hed a to-urt.h t.lmt'". Needl.t'M He believed slavery to be morally and economically to a.tl\te the •utld~ wa• writAcn by the editor. wrong. Yet it was true that Con,:~Te:;s hnd no constitu­ While the Emancipation Proclamation is considered tionar authority to abolish the institution within a state. one of the great state documents of modern times, it was But. what about the executive power to abolish the not readily accepted by conservative Republican poli· instituion? lnterestingly enough, back in 1836, John ticians of lnditma. The people of the Old Northwest, while Quincy Adams warned the friends of slavery that ''should they hated the slavery institution, had long had an affinity any state rise to in~urreetion because of slavery, or in with the South. The a matter in which slav­ Civil \Var had vitally ery was the existing ntfected the economic cause, the situation habits of a farge section would be ch.nged. The of Indiana's population, National Government because Hoosiers had would then assume war enjoyed a luc1-ative trade po'vers under the Con­ with the South. Their stitution and those grain and hogs had fed powers might include the slaves while they that of the abolition of produced cotton for their slavery." southern n1asters. In such a crisis who Yet some J ndiana lead* would exercise the pow. ers like Schuyler Colfax er of the national gov­ favored a Presidential ernment? Lincoln be­ pronouncement for uAbo· lieved the powe1· was not lition and Contlscation11 legislative but that it and Genen1l Robert H. belonged to the President Milroy. while in the field, as commander- in- chief promised to convert his of the armies of the Indiana regiments into United States. Lincoln "the best abo1itionists in determined to issue the the U. $." President Emancipation Proclnma. Abraham Lincoln was tion under the pressure under constant pressure o! military necessity. So from many abolitionists on September 22. 1862, throughout the United Lincoln proclaimed : States to enumcipate the uThat on the first $laves. and undoubtedly -..-..-·---;,-.------ ... __~~~-----­ .,.. __ ,. ...-.. da)f of January in he understood the politi· -.....--""- ---r- -­ the year of our Lord, cal conflict in Indiana. --...... , ... - -~ one thousand eight 1-· -·--.,-- ..-- -- The same political situ­ _r---------~__ _._, ....... hundred and sixty­ ation exi$ted ;n Illinois. 4 t • • -• three, all persons Lincoln probably knew held as slaves with­ ._,.._,_ ....,__..,._, _ that Robert Dale Owen __.,._, __ - in any state or had become a pamph­ • designated part of leteer for emancipation, -~ .. ----- a state, the people and he must have heard ... ---------··'"'-- ..,_ ,- whereof shall then how George W. Julian .,... -· _..., -,..c.--...-,.-r·---­ _......,.._ be in rebellion was verbally blastin~ the . -·~ ... ......... ---<41'---.--.. ·­ against the United ~- ,....,fl>"o ____ A _ _ _ ,A..I'-+-¥"""'--......_,. .. .._, conse1·vatives and de­ ~,----.,.....__ .. _____ _ States $hall be then, nouncing the <;persistent henceforward. a n d ,.,..._ ... :::;:::.-;. ... ,...~ purpose of the admini .. ... '--~--___ ., ____..,14- - __ ... -- ....... - .-.-......,..._ forever free, ..." stration to save the - -~ HOOSIER NE WS­ Union and s.nve slavery , ___---- 'Y'"_'I-"',._ P A PER S CON­ with it." Such Indiana ·-4,. D E MN PROCL A- leaders as Caleb Smith, MATION Secretary of the Interior, The news of the proc­ and Senator J oseph A. lamation of September W r ight were under 22 came to I ndiana as severe attack by the radicals because they opposed eman­ a great political shock. Kenneth t\'1. Stampp in his work cipation. Indiana Politica, During tke CivU lVar, published by 2 LINCOLN LORE war." The Indianapolis Dailt! Journal read into the proclamation •<a retaliation for the rebel violators of the Constitution" and a heavy blow to the rebe11ion. llEI'UBI.ICANS FEAllEO FOil POLITICAL FUTUI!E To most Hoosiers the issuanc~ of the Emancipation Proclamation seemed to indicate a faiJurc of the ad­ ministration's war policy. Throughout the state there was a feeling of deprel:lSion and discontent over disast1·ous Union d(>fe.ats. Thi:; hostile politic~1l react.ion to Lincoln's proclamation seemed to confirm Caleb Smith's dire pre­ diction that the measure would cause the Republicans to lose the state. In fact, violent demonstrations were feared by state authorities, but luckily the Democrats were con .. tent with verblll expressions of criticism. On Janua1·y 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. Lincoln had never been more confident of the righteousness of any act in all of his public career. Seere~1ry of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase had provided him with these closing words : " And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of Justice. warranted by the Constitution, upon mili· tary necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gnu:ious favor of Almighty Cod." \Vith a firm hand he s igned his full name, 11Abraham Lincoln." HOOSIER RECRUITING CAME TO A STANDSTILL But the proclamation brought no joy to dishear tened Hoosier politicians, and this feeling was reflected in the Pro»r tla(' f,iftc()l" N(l.tio-14(11 JA{e Powt~dotloM war effort. Indiana troops became apathetic; a number Pr~.!<ldent Ltnroln Atld Sec-r-etAry ~ard 'igning The Proclamation of officers l'Csigned their commissions in protest against or Fttfdom. Janua.r)' L 1863. Published in 1865 b>' Currier & lve!t.. the Emancipation Proclamation. Recruiting was at a 1~2 N!i$411U Street. Ne>w York. standstill and desertion incJ•eased. There were many :;oldierg who were willing to fight to save the Union, but the Indiana Histor-ical Bur-eau, Indianapolis, has pointed wholly unwilling to give theh· lives for the freedom of out that Indiana conservative Union papers printed the reclamation without comment; hov.'ever, the New Albany the Neg•·o. £edger denounced it and changed its own political com­ One of the chiei opponents of the Emancipation Proc­ plexion by giving its editorial support to regular Demo­ lamation was Richa-rd W. Thompson, an Indiana lawyer, crats. The Indianapolis Daily Stat~ Stmtiuel called the President's proclamation ;,a confession of national weak­ who :served as a Whig Congressman from 1847 to 1849, ness, a mortal blow to southern Union sentiment, and while Lincoln was a member of that branch of the fed­ the Ii nal proof that the war had become a crusade against eral government. At the suggestion of several conserva­ slavery." t.ive members of Congress, mostly from the border states, Governor Oliver P. Morton and his friends reeled Thompson wrote Lincoln, twenty-six days after the under the political impact. of Lincoln's preliminary Eman­ Emancipation Proclamation had gone into effect, a seven. cipation Proclamation. They had no alternative but to teen-page letter setting forth in a master(ul way the give it approval, but the Governor upassed over aJI moral best arguments which the opposition could formulate j ustification" and declared the act as a "stratagem of against the document. Provisions were made for many signatures to be affixed to t.he letter. Thompson's letter met. with the general approval of such borde•· state congressmen a~ C•·ittenden and Mallory of Kentucky, Ethe•·idge and Hatton of Tennessee, and Harris of Virginia. But after some deliberation it was decided not. to send it.. This letter which might bear the title '' A StiJJ Further Step--Beyond the Law" is a part of the Thompson papers in the archives of the Lincoln Nationnl Life Foundation. FOE LATEll PRAISED LINCOLN'S FAIISIGHTEONESS Even Lincoln heard about the letter and asked Thomp­ son about it. When Thompson explained its genernl pur­ port, Lincoln replied that he had made one capital mis­ take, ''There were no loyal slave owners in the South." Later Thompson confessed thnt "he had not seen as far as Lincoln or known as much." After Lincoln's assassina· tion Thompson refen·ed to the issuance of the Emanci­ pation Proelamntion as "one of the most important events of modern times and as lhe most important and far-•·each .
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