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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
nion will be speedily restored. But if you attempt the exercise of an unconstitutional power by the liberation of their slaves, you will strike down every loyal man in the slaveholding States, and there will not one be left to tell the story of the Union. I am willing to trust to the President as an honest patriot, who told us in the beginning, and who tells us now, that, by virtue of his oath, he must preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Mr. Lane--Do I understand the honorable Senator to express the opinion that it is the constitutional duty of this Government to maintain the slaves of rebels and traitors in arms, and restore them if they escape? Mr. Carlile--My opinion as to what the duty of the Government is goes just as far as its constitutional obligation, and no further. At the time of the adoption of that Constitution, twelve States were nominally slaveholding, and the exigencies of the times demanded that they should adapt themselves to circumstances, a