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ss of the enemy in killed and left the field was greater than ours. In an estimate cannot he made, as of them must have been sent to Corinth that points. The enemy suffered terri demoralization and desertion. of truce was sent to-day from General Beauregard. I enclose a copy of the correspondence. I am, respectfully,Your obd't servant, U. S. Grant, Major-General Commanding. Doings at Washington. for the abolition of slavery in the of Columbia was signed by President Lincoln on the 16th of April. In his announcing the fact, he says he has desired to see the National Capital from the institution in some satisfactory . debate on the Confiscation bill, Senate well, of Kentucky, argued that the that and other measures of the session destroy slavery in the States. He that in one instance ninety slaves had best through Baltimore from Banks's to Philadelphia, and that forty five belonging to a loyal citizen of Kentucky had been sent by militar
England and America the dearest rights of man are those of his property, and he could not be deprived of it except by due process of law, and if any one attempted to take his property violently he had a right to take life. The war was for the restoration of the Union and not for the abolition of slavery, and if it was considered to be a war for the confiscation of property there would be nobody to fight but the Abolitionists Congress at the extra session declared they did not end to assail the institutions of any of the States, but as soon as this rebellion was put down the war ought to end. We have ample means to put down this rebellion, and now gentlemen seek to throw in another object, to war, to abolish slavery. He would beg them to let this unnecessary measure alone — there is no necessity for it. Mr. Lincoln has an opportunity to occupy the place next to Washington if he chooses to accept it, but if he makes it a party matter it is lost. The House then adjourned.