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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Debate in the Yankee Congress. (search)
es to be Spared. Mr. Stevens offered an amendment to the Conscription bill, that persons of African descent, between 20 and 45 years of age, whether citizens of the United States or not, shall be enrolled and form part of the national forces, and when a slave shall be drafted and mustered into the service, the master shall receive a certificate for $300, and the drafted man shall be free. This Mr. Stevens said would give compensation to masters in the loyal border States. Mr. Clay (Ky.) hoped that Mr. Stevens would withdraw his amendment. A good feeling was now prevailing in his State, and the adoption of this proposition would retard the progress of the Union feeling. He did not object to taking rebel 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 rebe