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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Debate in the Yankee Congress. (search)
bel property, but that of loyal men ought not to be interfered with. Mr. Boutwell (Mass.) said the laws of all the States recognize slaves as persons and not as property, and the exigency has arrived when we should use them as other men are used for putting down the rebellion. Mr. Morris (N. Y.) favored the amendment, not being able to see why that description of property 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 a