Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1962 — Page 12

12-The Indianapolis Recorder, Feb. 3,1962

N. C Mutual Insurance Co. Assets Now Exceed $70 Million

Emancipation Proclamation

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in the war effort. Indiana troops became apathetic; a number of officers resigned their commissions in protest against the Emancipation Proclamation. Recruiting was at a standstill and desertion increased. There were many soldiers who were willing to fight to save the Union, but wholly unwilling to give their lives for , the freedom of the Negro. ,

One of the chief opponents of the Emancipation Proclamation was Richard W. Thompson, an Indiana lawyer, who served as a Whig .Congressman from 1847 to 1849, while Lincoln was a member of that branch of the federal government. At the suggestion of several conservative members of

Congress, mostly from the border weaken the enemy,

states, Thompson wrote Lincoln,

succeeded if it had been done at any other time, in any other manner, and by any other man.” Nation-wide the immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was not favorable to Lincoln and his cause. Even English newspapers declared that the document “had no legal force” and that “Lincoln and his accomplices had come to the end of their chatter.” Editors branded it as “highhanded usurpation” and “pointed out the absurdity of Lincoln’s point of view.” One English newspaper condemned the mancipation Proclamation because* it ignored a moral principle: “It promised the emancipation of slaves not because freedom was right, but because it was believed that such a move

twenty-six days after the Emancipation Proclamation had gone into| effect a 17-page letter setting forth in a masterful way the best arguments which the opposition could formulate against the document. Provisions were made for many signatures to be affixed

to the letter.

Thompson’s letter met with the general approval of such border state congressman as Crittenden and Mallory of Kentucky, Etheridge and Hatton of Tennessee, and Harris of Virginia. But after some deliberation it was decided not to send it. This letter which might bear th title “A Still Further Step—Beyond the Law” is a part of the Thompson papers in the archives of the Lincoln National

Life Foundation.

PRAISES LINCOLN Even Lincoln heard about the letter and asked Thompson about it. When Thompson explained its general purport, Lincoln replied that he had made one capital mistake, “There were no loyal slave owners in the South.” Later Thompson confessed that “he had not seen as far as Lincoln or known as much." After Lincoln’s assassination Thompson referred to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation as “one of the most important events of modern times and as the most important and far-reaching course of policy Lincoln could possibly have adopted.” Charles Roll in his biography, “Colonel Dick Thompson—The Persistent Whig,” another publication of the Indiana Historical Bureau, Indianapolis, stated that Thompson “believed that it (Emancipation Proclamation) was issued at exact-llP-the right time to insure its success, and that it would not have

Lincoln once told his cabinet that his Proclamation of Emanci-

pation was a fulfillment of a covenant he had made with God. But of the Diety apprmed, Lincoln had little immediate evidence of the fact. The abolitionists were not happy; they thought the proclamation should have been issued sooner and should be applicable to loyal states as well as those in rebellion. The stock market declined, and there were fewer soldiers in the armies after the issuance -of the proclamation than

before.

Gradually, the states of the Old Northwest as well as the other states of the Union began to appreciate the wisdom of the Emancipation Proclamation. For one thing, it had cut the ground from under the European interventionists. After the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln was fighting not only for Union but human freedom, and Europe gave heed to the fact. It proved in its over-all aspects to be a great leap toward ultimate Union victory. It was in reality the atomic bomb of the Civil War.

Mass. Governor Hails Valor of Negro Troops in Civil War Battles

By SAMUEL P. PERRY, JR. WASHINGTON. D.C. (ANP) — Speaking before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company at the Sheraton-Park Hotel here, Governor John A. Volpe praised the Negro regiment which fought under Colonel Robert Gould Shaw at Fort Wagner, S.C. during the Civil War. Governor Volpe was referring to the Mass. 54th Regiment. “One hundred and eight years ago,” hesaid, “Massachusetts witnessed the culmination of the antislavery agitation of’which she had been the center for a quarter of a century. “Tongue and pen had here done full work for human freedom. By other weapons and on other ground was the final issue to be determin-

ed. The time had come when the question of the worthiness ot men with black skin to bear arms and to be received into the fellowship of military service was to put to trial; when their courage and endurance were to be subjected to the supreme test of the battlefield. FIRST TO THE FRONT “A Negro regiment the first raised by any northern state, marched through Boston’s streets, bound for the front, with Robert Gould Shaw in command.” “Two months later, “Governor Volpe pointed out, “the answer to the question whthe the) Negro wouls fight and die for his country like the white man came back, written in letters of blood from te ramparts of Fort Wagner, where

63rd Annual Policyholders Meet Notes Great Progress

DURHAM, N.C. — The 63rd annual policyholders meeting of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company was held in the home office auditorium Monday, Jan. 8, with president A. T. Spaulding reporting considerable activity and progress in 1961. Spaulding cited the firm not only as a signficant business institution, but also as a symbol of Negro potentialities and what can happen in America.

1961 assets are expected to exceed $70 million with more than $290 million insurance in force and premium income of over $14.9 million.

Two North Carolina Mutual salesmen emerged as one million dollar producers at the close of the year—the first time in history that individual efforts have reached this peak in a Negro-owned company. Among noteworthy events of the previous year, the company expanded to the West Coast with the June opening of a branch in Los Angles. New quarters were occupied by existing offices in Albany Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Norfolk, Va. The company also establish its first European agency. Through stock purchase the company has gained control of Bankers Fire and Casualty Insur-

race was called to sudden manhood.” Th Bay State’s chief executive expressed te view tha te common trench of soil n South Carolina, “upon a battleground which as been well died the Bunker Hill of the colored ace. was| the fitting sepulchre of white *md black, officer and private.” In ronclusion, Governor Volpe asserted, “e great price was paid.

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