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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Debate in the Yankee Congress. (search)
y should be exempted, while the property of citizens of other States are used for national purposes. Mr. Creswell (Md.) favored the amendment, stating that the slaveholders in the State of Maryland have furnished but few if any men for the war. Mr. Farnsworth (Ill.) said he would not put money into the pockets of slaveholders. It was their duty to put their slaves into the army without compensation. We put our sons into the army, and why should they not give their slaves. Mr. Smithers (Del.) would say to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Clay) that the people of his State had no such scruples as the people of Kentucky are represented to have. There would be nothing more welcome to Delaware than to take her slaves from her. Mr. Mallory briefly maintained that according to the Constitution private property, including slaves, cannot be taken for public uses without compensation. Mr. Havis (Md) maintained that slaves do military duty, and therefore we do not owe