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The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Lincoln's Message. (search)
ay that the South has been more responsible than the North for its continuance. If, then, for a common object, this property is to be sacrificed is it not just it be done at a common charge? And if, with less money, or money more easily paid we can preserve the benefits of the Union by this means than we can by the war alone, is it not also economical to do it? Let us considered, then Let us ascertain the sum we have expended in the war since compensated emancipation was proposed last March, and consider whether if that measure had been promptly accepted, by even some of the slave States, the same sum would not have done more to close the war than has been otherwise done. If so, the measure would save money and in that view, would be a prudent and economical measure. Certainly, it is not so easy to pay something as it is to pay nothing; but it is easier to pay a large than it is to pay a larger one. And it is easier to pay any sum when we are able than it is to pay it befor