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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 18: Lincoln and Emancipation (search)
the Constitution and laws. About the same time Mr. Lincoln stated to a party of Southern Congressmen, who called upon him, that he recognized the rights of property that had grown out of it [slavery] and would respect those rights as fully as he would similar rights in any other property. No steps were taken by Mr. Lincoln to recall or repudiate the foregoing announcements. On the contrary, he confirmed them in his official action. He annulled the freedom proclamations of Fremont and Hunter. He did not interfere when some of his military officers were so busy returning fugitive slaves that they had no time to fight the masters. He approved Hallock's order Number Three excluding fugitives from the lines. He even permitted the poor old Hutchinsons to be sent away from the army very much as if they had been colored people, when trying to rouse the boys with their freedom songs. In many ways Mr. Lincoln showed that in the beginning and throughout the earlier part of his Adminis