Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-12-20
NO. So.
Change Of Opinion on slavery.

| The New York Post calls attention to the
great change of opinion in regard 10 slavery
that has taken place within the last few months.
Il says:
A few years ago when Mr.. PuiDam, the
publisher, with a decision and disinteresieCl,
ness which did him great homer, insisted that
his magazine-then the leading periodical of
the country-shouId freely remark upon all
matters Of public interest, other publications
Of the kind stared nghast ut the audlaciiy.-
But now the knickerbOcker, BrswnsOB'S
| Quarterly, Harpers Weekly, Frank Lesfiei
Journal, the Illustrated News, in short, near
ly every periodical of influence, not excepting
the more en'erprising Sunday papers, openly
denounce Slavery. IL is only Il year sibce Vse
heard one Of our most venerable clergymcn
announce, with some spirit, that he would new
or in his life refer TO the question, but on
Thanksgiving day be, in common with nearly
every Clergyman in this city and BROOKLYN.
shot the heaviest bolts Of an indignant eIo-
quence against the handspring OF trcason-
Mr.. Curtis, who was moSbed in Philadelphia
for touching the delicate question in ii lecture,
spoke there last week TO crowded, fashiOna
bic and delighted audience The building
could not contain those who wished to hear
Sumner. f- .f
Among our conspicuous men, the change is
even more remarkable. They no longer con.
ceal or qualify their sentiments on The origin
or nature OF the war. No man Of eminence
among us has hitherto occupied a more con
servaiive position than the most elegant or
our rhetoricians, Edward Everett, ard yet Mr..
+ erett, we are told, regards this war as the
certain doom of Slavery. Mr. Brancron. the
historian, is cautious as well as profound
thinker, but Mr.. BrancrOft was Jealous and
emphatic in his Cooper Institu.e speech in his
demands for an aii-Slsvery policy. General
Butler, long distinguisht d leader Of the Mas
sachusetis Democracy, invented the doctrine
Of "contabands' in his application TO fugitive
slaves; and Col. COchraDe, Of the same politi-
cal school, addresses his soldiers in the field on
the necessity Of turning slaves TO oar use. ir-
stead Of allowing them to be used 10 our in |
jury We might cite, both from Public and
private life, thousand other instances of the |
same kind. but VIC confne ourselves TO these
because they are alIcady more or less notori- |
Gus.
These gentlemen are not aboIitionists, II
any sense of the term; they do not ask the
Government 10 engage in what is termed mn
cruiSsade; they would, doubtless,
be strongly opposed to any general decree OF
emancipation, or to the arm ing Of slaves, cx- |
cept in the last necessity they are not all Of i
them, perhaps, actuated by phlanlhropic mo-
tives; but they do see, as every man Of sense /
must see, that this question of the disposal of |
Slavery Is thrust upon us by the inevitable !
events Of the war. |
The n. Y. correspondent Of the Boston
Jou nal writesttO the same effect:
We are all loyal now, we are all In favor of
making Slavery pay for the war. We, in so,ae |
FORM or way. allow Slavery to he the cause Of |
all our voc. Open aud Icgalize the slave lrn.le,
allow the South to carry their cllattels into |
the Territories and into the States, and all |
would be well in Dixie; so that HOW the mouths
Of all the puIpits are wide open, and those Who I
have been the most conservative and silent
seem now TO talk the most 1t is said that
Robert Hall was riIent when child, for Su.h
length Of time that il was feared that hc
would he dumb, but when he did b,gin TO talk
ne made the family almost crazy with his in
cessant clatter
Mr. Sumner need not waste time in New
York. More orators are aching to speak than
can fpd u platform or an audience, Chccver
will soon bc out lleioded, and the Plymouth
pnlpiis win have no mere monopoly Of tue
topic Of Slavery ~.