If we open a hundred 'conservative' journals in
succession, we shall find at least ninety of them asserting or
assuming that the revolted States are to be reconciled to the Union
by new concessions, new guarantees to slavery. But those States
themselves emphatically repel this assumption. Every man in
Delaware, in Maryland, in Tennessee, in Missouri, who is heartily
and thoroughly anti-rebel is also anti-slavery, and nearly every
one is for immediate, not gradual, emancipation. They were not
Republicans; not one in twenty of them voted for Lincoln; they make
no special pretensions to philanthropy; but they mean to live and
die in the Union, and they do not choose to have their throats cut
by rebels; so they desire that slavery should die, knowing by
practical experience, by personal observation, that slavery and the
rebellion are but two phases of the same thing--two names for one
reality.'
Slavery, as things are, is neither 'crippled' nor 'half dead.' It is
only a little sick, and threatened with being made more so, if the same
effectual blows which have been dealt it are followed up hereafter with
other blows still more effectual.
We have reason to believe that the writer of the _Times_ article we have
been reviewing, has passed some time with the Army of the Cumberland;
that he has viewed the subject impartially from what he deems a large
field of observation; and that he speaks honestly what he believes.
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