Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-10-10

of the plantation States? We believe that he
may 50 far succeed as to cause many Southern
regiments to remain at home for the purpose of
keeping the slaves in order, but that he will re-
ccive from his newly Invited allies any efficient
assistance is a matter with respect to which we
must be permitted to express the gravcst doubt.
If the theory of the Federal government s-to be.
observed, slavery has nothing whatever to do
with the question.
Only the other day Mr.. Cameron, the Secrc-
tary at War, instructed General Butler at Fort
Monroe, to receive more fugitive slaves, and
to keep an account of the earnings of those who
had already escaped, in order that the rights of
the owner might be respected. We infer from
the proclamation of General Fremont that this
regard for the rights of property has now been
altogether ignored, and that the contest, hereto
fose one between an unpopular government and
successful insurrcctionists may assume the new
and aggravated form of remorseless and SAN
culinary servile war General Fremont may
think that he will attract the sympathy of Flu
ropean nations, and that great moral revolu-
ton may be effected for the benefit of the negro
population by making the emancipation of the
slave to depend upon the allegiance or disloyal-
ty of his master.
The position of the free negro in the Northern
States is in no respect envabe. The law gives
him rights which the incxorable custom of the
country does not permit him to enjoy. He is
kept separate, as kind of pariah of society, in
the place of worship, in the public vehicle, and
in the ordinary intercourse Of life. Mrs. Stowe
may charm never so well With her benevolently
intended and amusing fictions but she cannot
disprove the fact that both in North and South
the negro is treated as the member of degrad-
ed and subservient race. We therefore do not
imagine that the proclamation Of General Ere
mont will attract much attention in the South
or even amongst the people of this country
especially when, in the latter case, it will be
correctly considered simply as penalty attach
ed to the offence of high treason.
Much as Englishmen value the freedom of the
slave, they would not wish to see this great OBJ
ject accomplished by domestic treason, and that
wholesale slaughter which always marks the
track of servile Instruction.
From the London News abolition organ) Sept. IS.
FREMONT HAILED AS CHIEF OF THE ADO
LlTIONISTS.
The civil war in America seems to be enter
ing upon a new stage. While the exploit of
Gen. Butler has given the Federal government
the command of the coast of North Carolina,
Gen. Fremont, in Missouri, has by his procla-
nation boldly put forward the grand issue of
the contest. The property, he says, real or per-
sonal, of all persons in the State of Missouri,
who shall take up arms against the United
States, or who shall be directly proven to have
taken active part with the enemies in the field,
is declared to be confscated to the public use,
and their slaves, if they have any, are hereby
declared free men.
But, as we have said, the proclamation Of
Gen. Fremont has altered the whole aspect of
the question. 1t is true, according to its terms,
that the slaves who are to be emancpated must
belong to active secessionists; but the fact be-
ing that most of the great slave-owners in the
South have, in fact, taken up arms for the Con-
federate government, it is obvious that, if the
same principle which has been applied in Mis-
souri, is to be applied to the other States, Gen.
Fremonts proclamation amounts practically to
a measure of general abolition. Now, at least,
the connection between the action Of the North
and tbs abolition Of slavery will be practically
estaba struuen unancTpar0h Of r UUU,-
900 OF semi savages without terrible misgivings,
but if the ultimate extinction of the national
curse of slavery can be obtained by no gentler
means, it is not for Us to deprecate the result