' Therefore hasten to restore the civil law to its old and
tyrannical potency over the destiny of the slave. '_The institution must
melt away as the war goes on_.' Therefore, hasten not merely to finish
the active stage of the war, but _to surrender the power which victory
will place in your hands to continue the same emancipating influences_;
and to surrender it into the hands of men avowedly hostile to your
policy, and who have been conquered fighting for their franchise to
enslave.
'_Not only_,' continues our editor, '_have slave codes interdicted, in
every one of the Slave States, all adverse discussion of the
institution, but a mob power has always been at hand to take summary
vengeance upon it with Lynch law. These resorts were not a mere caprice;
they were a necessity_.' Hasten, therefore, to reestablish these engines
of terrorism and the institution which inevitably demands their
existence. Ignore and set aside the Proclamation of Emancipation; betray
the auxiliary black man; throttle and destroy the incipient party of
freedom in its birth; turn the Young South, just rising into existence
as the friend of liberty and progress, over, stripped and unprotected,
into the hands of the Old South, with its thongs, its thumbscrews, and
its Lynch law; throw aside, the moment it is acquired, the power to
civilize and regenerate the South--not because the war and the free
discussion which accompany the war _have killed slavery_, but because
they _are killing it_, and will be sure to kill it unless they are
speedily withdrawn.
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