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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
mes. To Horace Greeley, Esq. [reply.] My Dear General: You are a soldier, and I am not; yet we agree in one thing — frankness. I have as little time or taste for argument as you, and will strive to emulate your directness and brevity. I agree with you that it is well to settle the disturbing questions you indicate now, and settle them finally. I propose, then, that we settle the Territorial question on the basis of Mr. Jefferson's proposition reported to Congress in April, 1784--within two months after the Confederation first had any territory to deal with. Mr. Jefferson was one of our greatest Revolutionary statesmen — he was a Virginian — a slaveholder — and especially honored and confided in by Kentucky till his death, which happened forty years afterwards. New York was then a slave State, yet she supported him right heartily; so did sixteen out of the twenty-three members present and voting, though nearly all were from slave States. I propose that we now