I am ready to vote more, if more be needed for this good purpose; but I will not vote money to be sunk and lost in an uncertain scheme of Prospective Emancipation, where Freedom is a jack-o’-lantern, and the only certainty is the Congressional appropriation.
He critiques the idea of funding uncertain emancipation schemes, insisting on immediate and tangible results for freedom.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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