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For Charlie had made a study of the reports from the Promised Land. But a more pressing matter was the attitude of the border-State men toward the free-State emigrants, and the question of making the necessary purchases for their farming scheme. Parkville was all alive with people, and there were many border-State men among them.
"He said: 'I would like you to talk to all the Border-State men whom you can approach properly, and tell them of my anxiety to have the measure pass; and let me know the prospect of the Border-State vote, which I promised to do. On the 5th of January, 1865, the Christmas Recess having expired, Congress re-assembled.
Neither can the Government hope for early success if the support of that element called "Conservative" be withdrawn. "Such being the condition of things, the President appeals to the Border-State men to step forward and prove their patriotism by making the first sacrifice.
But those who signed this latter reply were few, among the many. Practically, the Border-State men were a unit against Mr. Lincoln's proposition, and against its fair consideration by their people. He asked for meat, and they gave him a stone.
It cleared away the cobwebs which the arguments of the loyal Border-State men, and of the Northern Copperheads and other Disunion and Pro-Slavery allies of the Rebels were forever weaving for the discouragement, perplexity and ensnarement, of the thoroughly loyal out-and-out Union men of the Land. It largely increased our strength in fighting material.
It seemed as impossible to satisfy these Border-State men as it had been to satisfy the Rebels themselves. The Act of Congress, to which President Lincoln referred in his Order modifying Fremont's proclamation, had itself been opposed by them, under the lead of their most influential Representative and spokesman, Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, in its passage through that Body.
These loyal Border-State men, however, could not see its wisdom, and at a full meeting held upon the subject decided to oppose it, as they afterward did. Its conciliatory spirit they could not comprehend; the kindly, temperate warning, they would not heed.
Very different indeed was the attitude of Mr. Henderson, of Missouri, Border-State man though he was.
But stones are not more deaf to entreaty than were the ears of the loyal Border-State men and their allies to President Lincoln's renewed appeal. "Ephraim" was "wedded to his idols."
His "border-state policy" soon came to be discussed as the most interesting topic of which men could talk wherever they came together.
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