A Free State government upon the basis of immediate emancipation can be acquired as early as March with the general consent of the People, and without any material opposition, in such a manner as to draw after it all the Southern States, on the same basis, and by the same general consent.
Boutwell discusses the potential for establishing a Free State government based on immediate emancipation during the Civil War era.
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