New YorK, April 1, 1862.
. . . Regarding slavery, I repeat, let us compress it
as much as we can. Let us free, in actual war, as many negroes that come to us
as we can; let us emancipate the District; let us keep free every Territory;
let us contrive and adopt some bonus for emancipation; let us distinctly emancipate
the negroes of the open, avowed traitors; and what with increased cotton
culture elsewhere, and the blow which the institution must receive from our
victory, after having proclaimed itself a divine institution, it will dwindle
and die out, — not perhaps without asking us to pay for the emancipation.
SOURCE: Thomas Sergeant Perry, Editor, The Life and
Letters of Francis Lieber, p. 326
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