CHAPTER XXVI.

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.--Revoked 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 Secession.--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.--Failure 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 Proclamation.--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 Cabinets.--Object of these Declarations.--Trick of the Fugitive Thief.--The Boast of Mr. Lincoln calmly considered.