[394] must be settled by the civil courts. No fugitive slaves will, therefore, be admitted within our lines or camps, except when specially ordered by the General commanding.In Horace Greeley's American Conflict, the author well says:
Never was a therefore more misplaced. How were the persons presenting themselves adjudged to be or known as fugitive slaves? Plainly, by the color of their skins, and that only. The sole end of this regulation was the remanding of all slaves to their masters,—seven-eighths of whom were most envenomed, implacable Rebels—by depriving them of refuge within our lines from those masters' power.
