Tennessee and Arkansas have been substantially cleared of insurgent control, and influential citizens in each, owners of slaves and advocates of slavery at the beginning of the rebellion, now declare openly for emancipation in their respective States.
Lincoln notes the shift in attitudes towards emancipation among former slave owners in Tennessee and Arkansas during the Civil War.
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