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.
Blaine discusses the shift in attitudes towards emancipation among former slave owners in Tennessee and Arkansas.
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