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8 B- MONDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Lincoln on State of the Union . By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Corraapondant "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history." President Lincoln was writ ing to Congress on Dec. 1 1862, in his State of the Union message. He was speaking of slavery and in favor of the adoption of a constitutional amendment providing for compensation of any state which would abolish slavery before 1000. Lincoln wrote on: "We of this Congress and this administration will be re membered in spite of our selves. "No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or the other of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "We say we arc for the Union. The world will not for get that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We-even we here hold the power and bear the ........... . Fabulous display of the world's most famous Diamonds including replicas of "The HOPE Diamond & TIFFANY Diamond to help celebrate I ..,.J ill h mam MM Mtmbar FOIC E. Medford 701 E. Jackson St. 773-7315 responsibility. In giving free dom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free-honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. "We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. "Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just -a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and Cod must forever bless." Something for Slavart Then Lincoln threw in something for the slavehold ers of the South. "It is no less true for often having been said that the peo ple of the South are no more responsible for the original in troduction of this property than are the people of the North." He also threw in something to improve his public relations with members of Congress. "1 do not forget the gravity which should characterize a paper addressed to the Con gress of the nation by the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Nor do 1 forget that some of you are seniors, nor that many of you have more expe rience than I in the conduct of public affairs. Yet I trust that in view of the great re sponsiuuity resting upon me, you will perceive no want of respect in any undue earnest ness I may seem to display Times have changed, he told them. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise to the occa sion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves." That was Lincoln making one last pica for an orderly solution of the rcdhot slavery problem - a solution which might appeal to the border slates, to northern Democrats who were lukewarm on the is sue and to the small but hard core northern proslavery advocates. In a month from the time the message was written Lin coln was on record as pledging himself to make permanent his Emancipation Proclama tion. Many thought, and some feared, he would not go through with his promise. Lincoln hazarded no guess whether the South would ac cept the constitutional amend ment but spoke hopefully that adoption "would end the struggle now, and save the Union forever." Secretary of Treasury Sal mon P. Chase was more real istic. When Lincoln read the draft of the message to the cabinet, Chase predicted the compensated cmancip a t i o n plan would come to nothing and that Lincoln's repeated suggestion of colonization of Negroes would suffer a similar fate. A two-thirds vote in Con gress for the amendment was out of the question. Chase said. Even if it stood that test, a three-fourths vote of states for ratification meant that all the border states must ap prove. Earlier negotiations with Delaware for compensat ed abolition had failed and Kentucky congressmen had registered their disapproval. Newspaper comment ran along those negative lines, too, and scnalors-particularly Rad ical Republicans-ignored the proposal. Nothing ever came of it In Congress. Lincoln's plan for compen sated and gradual freeing of the slaves was one more step in the transition from his ear lier stand that slavery was constitutional where it existed and his eventual position that the "peculiar institution must be abolished and Ne groes mace full citizens. One of the forces pushing Lincoln toward a firmer stand on slavery was the Radical Republican group in Congress, led in the House by Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania. Stevens was well ahead of his party on the slavery ques tion and had been for years. He already was thinking in advance on penalties to be as sessed against the Confeder ates when the war was won. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was not strong enough for Stevens, even after it was formally proclaimed on January 1, 1863. Had Enduranca Early in '63, Stevens had reminded the House of what he thought should be done to win the war and bring the se ceding states back into the Union. Nothing short of "actual ex termination or exile or starva tion" would force the Confed erates to surrender, he told the House. They have pluck, energy he went on. Only by freeing and arming the slaves and turning them against their masters, could me souin dc conquered. Stevens' views were shared is Hi '."..-...: start of the war and now a Democratic con gressman, tried to make an issue of a vague "peace offer" supposed ly floated from Richmond. The "offer" wag brought back from the Confederate capital by a Marylander nam ed Chase Barney. The terms, Wood said in a speech in New York, provided that the Con federates would return to the Union under the "old consti tution" plus adoption of the Crittenden Compromise and assumption by the U. S. of the Confederate debt. Wood added that he would be giad to con duct the negotiations for Lin coln. Lincoln replied that the Confederates could come back any time they submitted to national authority, that they already knew it and that he would consider a general am nesty but that the first move must come from the South. The "peace offer" seems to have been mostly political propaganda. About this time, too, Hor ace Greeley wrote an editorial in his New York Tribune, speculating on the "peace feelers" but his attitude was more hopeful than factual. But the political tension was great and as 1862 waned it seemed about to erupt into a knockdown dragout fight between Lincoln and the Rad icals. Final Power Test Administered to 'Nonflying Bird' Jackass Flats, Nev.-MPH-The sixth and final powered test of the KIWI "nonflying bird" was run off Friday in the $46 million program to develop a nuclear rocket for the U.S. space effort. Results of the test, one in a series of stationary rockets in Project Rover, were expected to be completed by the end of the year. "No real positive conclu sion of how well we did will be available for between two weeks and a month," said Keith Boycr, technical direc tor of the Rover Program from Los Alamos, N.M. The Atomic Energy com mission said the run on liquid hydrogen lasted for approxi mately 260 seconds at half the planned power. Test officials decided to shut down the re actor before planned power was reached when flashes were observed in the exhaust flames. Cause of the flashes was not determined, but the AEC said the orderly shutdown procedure should alow useful data to be obtained. It said the initial recorded data showed normal reactor opera tion, leaving unexplained the) visual flashes. The KIWI roared like a multi-jet bomber and shot a bright orange flame into a cloudless sky. Weather and scientific prc diction said fallout from tha experiment would fall harm lessly in remote desert areas. BALD-HEADED THIEVES? Miami (LPU Detectives ar working on a hair raising case. Somebody stole 20 pounds of human hair and 2H wigs valued at more than S25.000 during the week end. WROTE OF SLAVERY On Dec. 1, 1862, President Lincoln was writing his State of the Union message to Congress. He wrote of slavery and in favor of adoption of a Constitu tional amendment providing for compensation to any state which would abolish slavery before 1900. He wrote of his tory and he wrote of an idealistic future. He appealed to the slaveholders of the South, and tried to improve his pub lic relations with Congress. He was, in the message, making one last pica for an orderly solution of the red hot slavery issue, and was trying for some sense of unity. But political tension was great and as 18B2 waned, a knockdown dragout fight was shaping up between Lincoln and the Radicals. Here, from the Library of Congress collection, Lincoln is shown at the time the battle was shaping. in the Senate by Charles Sum ner of Massachusetts, Zach Chandler of Michigan, Ben Wade of Ohio and Henry Win ter Davis of Maryland, among others. This was formidable opposition for Lincoln to buck even though he felt the Radi cals were ahead of the country and that he, as commander-in-chief, had more power to tack le the slavery question and the arming of Negroes than Congress had. As Stevens and the Radicals stirred up the issue in Con gress, the Democrats, making the most of their election vic tories of November, piled more fuel on the fire. 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