The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-31

make TINS war OF emancipation nave thus far
been thwarted by the conservative and consti-
tutional course Of President Lincoln. We hope,
and we believe, that the conservative people of
the North will sustain the President in his views
and his action in regard to emancipation, and
that in spite of the incessant attacks of the abo
litlon organs, he will keep his "foot down" as
firmly as he has hitherto, and will as nobly re-
sist every attempt to push this war beyond lis
constitutional limits. 1t should never be lost
sight Of or forgotten that the abolition party is
a disunion party upon principle, and that this
war will be destructive to the North and South
alike if it shall result in general emancipation
Of the Southern slaves, or is conducted with any
other object than that of the Union as il was.
That this war will affect slavery, however, no
one can doubt. When our forces shall occupy
Southern ports and march through Southern
States, they will be obliged to deal with slaves
and with Shareholders, as well as with horses
and horse owners The instructions of the
government to the officers of our great naval
expedition are plain and decisive, and cover
the entire ground of our military relations with
slavery Our armies will use the slaves, just
as they will use the other property Of Southern
rebels, whenever and however they shall deem
necessary. They will pay for the services of
the slaves, just as for the services of the cattle
Of loyal men, upon receiving proper evidence
of that loyalty. They are no more sent to libe-
rate the slaves than TO free the mules of the
shareholders. They are to use them: that is ALL
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bic mode of dealing with the question; and we
are confident that these instructions will prove
precedent for, and will not be exceeded by,
those Of any forces which may hereafter be
despatched to the South They cover every
possible case and provide for every possible
contingency, and thus make the policy of eman-
cipation as useless and unnecessary as it is
unconstitutional, pernicious and destructive.
The purpose Of this war is not to subjugate
the South, as if it were hostile foreign coun-
try, and then to occupy it with cmigrants from
the North, but, on the contrary, to reclaim it,,
as rcbellous province and with its present in
habitants, to the Union. Wherever in the South
our soldiers go they will find numbers of large
Shareholders who, as soon rs they ascertain that
our soldiers are not slave liberators, will gladly
hail the approach of Union army, and invite
and assist it to protect them and their property
from JEFF. Davis reign of terror. We must be-
lieve--or else we can never hope for re-
union--that great numbers of the people Of
every seeded State are still true to the Union
as it was; they are OILY rebels because they
have been deluded into the idea tat our 60
vcrnment is aboltionized, and are ready to re-
new their allegiance to the old constitution
We have found these people in North Ca
roliaa; and. as you may judge Hercules
from his foot, so we may safely argue that
the Old North State fairly represents the
seeded States generally. Why have We
been subjecting the inhabitants Of the seeded
States to the rigors Of the blockade, to the
pcrils Of war, to the horrors of want and fam
Inc, to the loss and deprivation of every luxury,
comfort and even necessary, except to convince
them that the old Union still exists; except to
show them that no evils they encountered with
in the Union are half so onerous az those they
must endure out Of it; except to reclaim them
from foolish error and force them back to
resources and withholds the allowance of a
rebelious son, in order 10 induce him to return
home?
But to accomplish this object it is necessary
that we begin by maintaining the Union as it
was, before We can succeed in inducing them
to return to it. The Southern people never
seeded from our old Union. They seeded be-
cause they were convinced by abolitionists at
the North and by conspirators at the South that
the Union was to be transformed into an aboli-
ton despotism, and it was from this imagi-
nary abolition despotism that they cut them
selves loose. Now, to turn the governments
into vast emancipation society would change
it into the very thing the Southern people have
been taught to dread; would convince them that
they were right in their secession; would make
them mere resoiute never to return. We should
then have to extermnatc before we could con.
quer the Southern people; for they come of Re-
evolutionary stock. Throughout this entire war
we must rely not so much upon the bayonet as
upon the conviction Of the conservatism of our
cause, which we force among them through the
instrumentality Of the bayonet; not so much
upon our occupation of certain ports as upon
the moral effect Of our conduct and of our deal
ings with the people during that occupation. II
we display the black flag Of emancipation, we
may conquer the South but the land will be
like Sodom and Gomorrah after the burning:
the North will be delugcd BY swarms of freed
slaves, and our victory will, like a Dead Sea
apple, turn to bitter ashes in our grasp If we
display the motto, +" Our Union as it was,' we
shall find the Southern people only too glad to
rid themselves at once Of JEFF Davis thraldom
and the abolition phantom which deluded them
into his tolls
But while the result of our conservative poll.
cy viii be TO attract all honest Southern men to
our banners, as it is carried to them, still the
locale and morale Of slavery will be unavoiaa-
bly, and bencfcially changed by this war. In
all the border States slavery is gradually be-
coming extinct, as we long age predicted that
it would. The rebels are sending many slaves
South, and many more are escaping to our
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