It is again refreshing, in the midst of the open or covert defence and
protection among us of the surviving remnant of Slavery at the South,
granting for the moment that it is now reduced to that, and in the midst
of such easy and over-credulous and mistaken assumptions of its
complete, virtual destruction already, by undoubted friends of freedom,
as in the case of the _Times_ editor, General Grant, and numerous
others, to listen to such hearty utterances, in the keynote of the right
policy, as were made by Secretary Chase in his recent speech at
Cincinnati, and to be able to believe that they foreshadow the course of
the Administration in this trying epoch of our country's history. We
quote the following report:
'It was never intended to interfere with States that were loyal.
This Proclamation comes up as a great feature in this war. In my
judgment the Proclamation was the right thing in the right place,
and without it I am just as sure as I am of my own existence that
we could not have made the progress we have made. And I hold that
the man who denounces the Proclamation either speaks ignorantly,
speaks about that of which he knows little or nothing, or else he
really desires that the rebellion should succeed.
'There are two classes of States in the South; there is the class
of States that is affected by the Proclamation, and a class of
States that is not.
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