Mr. President, if you seek Indemnity for the Past and Security for the Future, if you seek the national unity under the Constitution of the United States, here is the way. Strike down the leaders of the Rebellion, and lift up the slaves.
“To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free,—
These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.”
Then will there be Indemnity for the Past such as no nation ever before was able to win, and there will be Security for the Future such as no nation ever before enjoyed, while the Republic, strengthened and glorified, will be assured forever, one and indivisible.
NO SURRENDER OF FUGITIVE SLAVES IN WASHINGTON.
Resolution and Remarks in the Senate, May 23, 1862.
May 23d, the Senate proceeded to consider a resolution offered the preceding day by Mr. Sumner:—