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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The London Press on Lincoln's Message. (search)
to tender their submission at the feet of their lawful master. Mr. Lincoln however, is not king by right divine, but the Chief Magistrate, with very limited authority, of a united Confederation, and those to whom his proclamation is addressed are not rebellions subjects but sovereign States. The moral enormity of his ukase, therefore, is without precedent, while its practical absurdity has no parallel save in that crowning act of folly which annihilated the last hope of the last of our Stuart Kings. Abraham Lincoln offers mercy and restoration to the States of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and their Confederates, if they will lay down their arms, fulfill the terms of his emancipation edict, and return to the Union. He will pardon all citizens who shall take an oath of allegiance to the Federal Government, swear to obey all acts of the Federal Congress, and swear submission to that decree which pretends to liberate four millions of slaves; but to this gracious offer of me