The national Republican., 1861-06-20
THE WAR AND SLAVERY.


proclamations that they will protect private
property; but what are these proclamations
worth when you look ut the composition OF their
troops. The leaders are ambitious politicians,
and the men are desperate fanatics-the con.
seryative people stay at home. The leaders
are unable to control the men, and their paper
proclamations amount to nothing. The very
presence Of such on army in any Southern
State, demoralizes the slaves-they are ruinous
and out to be resisted and driven back" q.
But as it is not certain that these armies can
be "dripen back" the seeded States must soon
begin to ask themselves whether it was quite
prudent, so far as slavery is concerned, to draw
down upon themselves these "in0dding gen.
erals Slavery is very "peculiar" institu.
ton slaves are very "delicate" article OF
property. Their owners were in the peaceful
and quiet enjoyment of them when they rushed
into this rebellion; but they will come out Of
it without . single slave, unless they avert that
result by timely submission.
Not only is it true, as Mr.. Bell observes, that
tie mere "pressncs" of an invading army "de.
moralizes the slares," but it is the unalterable
determination Of the nation SO to conduct
what he is pleased to call the "inrasion" as
will e1tinguish slavery. The traitors will not
be allowed to pursue their slaves within the
lines of the armies Of the Republic, and this
puts an end to slavery rs those armies advance.
The desire Of slaves to recover their freedom
is uncouquerable, and whenever they get
chance to run away, they never fail to improve
it. Everybody knows what is going on to-day
in Eastern Virginia, and it is easy to anticipate
what will happen when "lines" are established
in the vicinity of Charleston and New Orleans,
within which negroes can take refuge. lfslave-
holding traitors dislike this entertainment, let
them give up their treason and lay down their
arms. They may depend upon it, that if they
postpone their submission until this war sweeps
down to the Gull, they will cease TO be slave.
holders. ...
1t is utterly impossible that slavery should
servive upon the theatre Of actual collision. 1t
is not merely that slaves get the opportunity to
run away from their masters, but masters run
away from their slaves, as is happening every
day in front Of our lines in Eastern Virginia.
The whole system there is tumbling into ruin.
Masters cannot enforce their authority, and
they abandon slaves who can earn nothing and
who cannot be sold.
How far this thing may 60, depends upon
the obstinacy of the traitors; but as to Vir.
ginia, it is certain that slavery is receiving its
death.blow. The running away Of the negroes
to the North, and the transportation Of them to
the South by flying owners, make double
drain, which will soon reduce the black popu.
lation to low figure. For every black man
who leaves, ten white ones will come in. These
secession traitors have, in fact accomplished
more for Virginia in the direction of emanci.
patton in six months, than would have been &C.
compished by the ordinary course of events in
6ny years. That is a phlanthropic result
which they probably did not intend; but they
are achieving it, and we are willing that they
should have the credit and satisfaction of it.
pJr The London Times of late date, in an
article upon cotton, has these sentences:
"But who shall say what changes will not
take place in the course of the next few years
Here we have India reconquered, the Chinese
Empire in the process of dissolution, the Old
World sick at heart, and nop the United States
at the end Of their brief history"
By those who have watched the course on
many questions Of the London Times-which
is but a more solemn sort of New York Herald
both able prints-the expression which close,
humorous side of memory's storehouse.
They will recall it when, some twelvemontt
hence, our London contemporary will be founG
launching forth magnificent periods of impor
, and accuracy like the following:
at was clear to US from the first that such
would be the fate of the misguided but daring
faction who sought, through their pretended
control OF the staples of European consum p
ton, to wrest from its inevitable progress tc
! renown the great confederation of States which
, in the Western World is to perpetuate to re
mote ages the doctrines, the language, anG
the morals Of the English race whence they
L sprang. With all the faults OF this ambition.
e nation, as Englishmen we are constrained tc
}. love them and be proud of them. We canno
but feel that the free blood of England flows il
their veins. From the outset we instinctivel,
knew that free England would never suffer thu
Republic of free America, whatever its way
, ward faults, to go down in darkness. In thu
t hour she felt the possibility of such result
the mysterious ties Of maternity, that throt
, before birth and do not perish with death, woult
stir her whole nature to the rescue, and sh'
whose
Home Is on tho mountain wave,
Whose march 10 on lhs Deep
would forget that the Atlantic lay between them
as she reused her resistless power to the rescue
) She would move, in her might, to the defenc,
of liberty, Engiald's liberty as well as Ameri
cas-, threatened BY a slaveholding oigarchy
IN the New World. No; England is u natior
ever alive TO the instincts of her history. Free
dom's battle is hers, wherever fought. Eng
lands people are debtpsying people. She