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Governor Corwin said be was not an immediate emancipationist. Would they tell him what to do with the negroes it! they were emancipated? He knew that I some said: Do right, and leave the con-sequences to God. He was agreed to that, but what was right? Had we a right to destroy the black man to benefit him? We could emancipate every negro I we saw, if we would only cut his throat. No man would have any property in him after that. (Laughter). We had no slaves in Ohio, therefore emancipation gradual or immediate was not a question; here; and we could not mtefere with the jlaws of Kentucky so a* to produce eman- {cipation there. jHo a ol/n/] ydli o t AAnoo/i nnnnoa vAltl.4
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Decatur Eagle
Decatur, Indiana, US
Fri, Sep 10, 1858
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