Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 2 of 2 The principle of this legislation had already been published to the country in a very fortunate way by General Butler. In May, 1861, being in com mand at Fortress Monroe, he had refused, under instructions from Cameron, to return three fugi tive slaves to their rebel owner, and he had in geniously put his refusal on the ground that they were contraband of war. The phrase instantly became popular. General Butler says that, as a lawyer, [he] was never very proud Of it; but technical ...
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 2 of 2 The principle of this legislation had already been published to the country in a very fortunate way by General Butler. In May, 1861, being in com mand at Fortress Monroe, he had refused, under instructions from Cameron, to return three fugi tive slaves to their rebel owner, and he had in geniously put his refusal on the ground that they were contraband of war. The phrase instantly became popular. General Butler says that, as a lawyer, [he] was never very proud Of it; but technical inaccuracy does not hurt the force of an epigram which expresses a sound principle. Contraband underlay the Emancipation Pro clamation. Thus the slaves themselves were forcing the issue, regardless Of politics and diplomacy. With a perfectly correct instinctive insight into the true meaning of the war, they felt that a Union camp ought to be a place Of refuge, and they sought it eagerly and in considerable numbers. Then, however, their logical owners came and reclaimed them, and other commanders were not so apt at retort as General Butler was. Thus it came to pass that each general, being without instructions carried out his own ideas, and confusion ensued. Democratic commanders returned Slaves; Aboli tionist commanders refused to do so; many were sadly puzzled what to do. All alike created em barrassing situations for the administration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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