Excerpt from Speech by Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio, on Emancipation as a Compensation for Military Service Rendered by Slaves: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 2, 1864 It 18 not the less a civil war, with belligerent parties in hostile array, because it may be called an imsuri action by one side, and the insurgents be considered as rebels or trai tors. - 2 Black's Reports, p 669. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.