January 10, 1849

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            <date value='1849-01-10'>Wednesday, January 10, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
  DC</place>. </dateline>
         <p>Congressman Lincoln proposes an amendment to a
  resolution regarding slavery within the District of Columbia. The bill, subject
  to voter approval, would effectively stop the growth of slavery within the
  District. If enacted, "all children born of slave mothers within...[the]
  District on, or after" January 1, 1850, "shall be free." The act would offer
  financial compensation to District slave owners in an effort to encourage them
  to free their slaves. Slave-owning congressmen doing government business in the
  District would no be required to free their slaves. <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A21' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks
  and Resolution Introduced in United States House of Representatives Concerning
  Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia</xref>, 10 January 1849,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:20-22.</bibl> 
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