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various members of the Cabinet on the President's emancipation policy during the time in which it was the subject of Cabinet discussion: Secretary Chase, from the outset, has been the recognized leader in urging emancipation, and when the matter was at various times under discussion, he was always its leading advocate. Secretary Weltes favored emancipate on, but was not specially energetic in urging, as he rarely is in ing, any point in public policy outside his own department. Secretary Stanton was always outspoken in declaring his readiness to strike at slavery under the war power, wherever and whenever slavery could be reached. Postmaster General Blair was, throughout, the most determined and bitter opponent of the emancipation policy, and when the substance of the proclamation was made known to the Cabinet, the was perhaps more outspoken than any of the members in protecting against its adoption. Not less determined, though perhaps more cautious in his protests, was Secr