Henry Wilson, a radical Republican Senator during the Civil War, was perhaps the most tactical abolitionist of his era. He formed the Free Soil Party, and build a coalition of various anti-slavery movements to work together for abolition. He was tireless, aggressive, shameless in making others feel ashamed for their complicity in the slave-sickness of America. 

By the Civil War, he was a force to be reckoned with the Senate. He had been a commander of a Union Army Regiment and was Chairman of the Senate Military Committee. Perhaps no person did more to enable the Lincoln and the Union Army to continue to receive needed resources. He was aggressive. And in 1862, he was in full support of a radical plan [though not radical enough for him, which he here opines about], a plan to nationalize the property of Southern Rebels, free and enlist their slaves, and to cancel the fugitive slave act so they too could be enlisted, with the hopes of bringing a quick end to the Civil War in one bold stroke. 

In the end, the Confiscation Act was not sufficiently enforced [something Wilson predicted]. Here he attempts to add steel and resolve to the act. Slavery is a mad dog which must be put down ere it kills its master in the mind of Wilson. 

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Wilson, Hon. Henry. The Death of Slavery-The Life of the Nation. Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, Delivered in the Senate, May 1, 1862, on the Bill to Confiscate the Property and Free the Slaves of Rebels. Washington, D.C. Scammel & Co., Printers. 1862. 7pp.

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