1862 Civil War newspaper ABRAHAM LINCOLN message w1st ATTEMPT to ABOLISH SLAVERY

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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL Civil War NEWSPAPER, the New York Semi-Weekly Tribune (NY City) dated Mar 7, 1862. This newspaper contains a prominent front page headline and a front page printing of the Message signed in type by President ABRAHAM LINCOLN to the US Congress, asking that slavery be abolished gradually and compensation be paid to the owners of the slaves . President Lincoln advocated that slave owners be compensated for emancipated slaves. On March 6, 1862 President Lincoln in a message to the U.S. Congress stated that emancipating slaves would create economic "inconveniences" and justified compensation to the slave owners. The resolution was adopted by Congress, however, the Southern States refused to comply. This was the first and earliest pubic message by Lincoln recommending the EMANCIPATION of the SLAVES. It was issued 10 months prior to Lincoln's EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION that took effect on Jan 1, 1863 and represents Lincolns first attempt to abolish slavery in the US !! Abraham Lincoln 's position on slavery was one of the central issues in American history . Lincoln often expressed moral opposition to slavery in both public and private. Initially, he expected to bring about the eventual extinction of slavery by stopping its further expansion into any U.S. territory, and by proposing compensated emancipation (an offer Congress applied to Washington, D.C) in his early presidency. Lincoln stood by the Republican Party platform in 1860, which stated that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more territories. Lincoln believed that the extension of slavery in the South, Mid-west, and Western lands would inhibit "free labor on free soil". In the 1850s, Lincoln was politically attacked as an abolitionist , but he did not consider himself one; he did not call for the immediate end of slavery everywhere in the U.S. until the proposed 13th Amendment became part of his party platform for the 1864 election . In 1842, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd , daughter of a prominent slave-owning family from Kentucky. Lincoln returned to the political stage as a result of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and soon became a leading opponent of the " Slaveocracy "—that is the political power of the southern slave owners. The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act , written to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, included language, designed by Stephen A. Douglas which allowed the settlers to decide whether they would or would not accept slavery in their region. Lincoln saw this as a repeal of the 1820 Missouri Compromise which had outlawed slavery above the 36-30' parallel. During the American Civil War , Lincoln used the war powers of the presidency to issue the Emancipation Proclamation , which declared "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free" but exempted border states and those areas of slave states already under Union control. As a practical matter, at first the Proclamation could only be enforced to free those slaves that had already escaped to the Union side. However, millions more were freed as more areas of the South came under Union control. President Lincoln advocated that slave owners be compensated for emancipated slaves. On March 6, 1862 President Lincoln in a message to the U.S. Congress stated that emancipating slaves would create economic "inconveniences" and justified compensation to the slave owners. The resolution was adopted by Congress, however, the Southern States refused to comply. On July 12, 1862 President Lincoln in a conference with Congressmen from Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri encouraged their respective states to adopt emancipation... read more

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