The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

130 THE LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND
do, and passed no law excluding slavery from any one of
them. It had severely censured the legislation of some
of the Northern States intended to hinder the recovery of
fugitives from labor; and in response to its expressed
wishes, Rhode Island repealed its laws of that character,
and Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin had
the subject under consideration, and were ready to take
similar action. Yet all this had no effect whatever in
changing or checking the secession mlovement in the
Southern States.