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f the proclamation, but that its application should be universal. Secretaries Chase and Stanton urged the same wording, but the President chose to restrict Norfolk and numerous other districts, thereby confining the proclamation to districts in open rebellion against the Union. On the subject of slavery and its ultimate fate at the end of the war the Cabinet is a unit — only differing as to the means by which its annihilation shall be brought about. Messrs. Chase, Stanton, Welles, and Usher, are of opinion that slavery should cease in all sections, whether covered by the proclamation or not, at the end of the war; while Messrs. Blair, Seward, and Bates, claim that it would be impolitic to make such a radical change; that the interests of political economy demand that emancipation should be gradual. To this effect these gentlemen favor the idea that all colored people remaining in slavery at the end of the war shall be gradually freed by special enactment. No member harhers fo