Chapter XVII: Border—state Opposition

APPOINTMENT OF A SELECT COMMITTEE, IN HOUSE, ON GRADUAL EMANCIPATIONDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA EMANCIPATION ACTTHE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL MESSAGE OF APPROVALGEN. HUNTER'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATIONPRESIDENT LINCOLN PROMPTLY RESCINDS IT BY PROCLAMATIONHIS SOLEMN AND IMPASSIONED APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF THE BORDER-STATESHE BEGS THEIR CONSIDERATION OF GRADUAL COMPENSATED EMANCIPATIONGEN. WILLIAMS'S ORDER EXPELLING RUNAWAY NEGROES FROM CAMP, AT BATON ROUGELIEUT.-COL. ANTHONY'S ORDER EXCLUDING FUGITIVE-SLAVE HUNTERS FROM "CAMP ETHERIDGE"GEN. MCCLELLAN'S FAMOUS "HARRISON'S LANDING LETTER" TO THE PRESIDENT"FORCIBLE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY" AND "A CIVIL AND MILITARY POLICY"SLAVEHOLDING BORDER-STATE SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AT THE WHITE HOUSEPRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ADDRESS TO THEM, JULY, 1862GRADUAL EMANCIPATION THE THEMECOMPENSATION AND COLONIZATION TO ACCOMPANY ITTHE ABOLITION PRESSURE UPON THE PRESIDENT INCREASINGHE BEGS THE BORDER STATESMEN TO RELIEVE HIM AND THE COUNTRY IN ITS PERILTHEIR VARIOUS RESPONSES