Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-02

The End OF slavery.
IL is very common remark in these times
that. whether emancipation be adopted as the
policy of the not slavery has recev Ell its
death blow" by the var We have grave doubts
OF the truth OF the prophecy. IL is impossible to
fore-ee what Is in the future OF our nation but
nothing IN the present justihes the belief that the
war will give slavery ans such blow, or produce
any immediate effect on the institution here t
now exists. II the policy Of declaring emancipa-
ton by general order. or proclaiming It from the
Presidential chair, had been adopted, or II IL
should hereafter be adopted by the dominant par
" At Washington and forced on the nation, We
are inclined TO believe that it would result in
riYetung the chains OF the slave for a thousand
years. and rendering the introduction of free Ia
bJr into the Southern States a total lmpO-slblIty.
IL Is easy 20 imagine a proclamation of freedom
aud advancing army compelling it, adoption
But those who see this grand triumph OF their
anxious hopes IN the future should look a little
farther and study the probable fate OF the freed
slave, the conquered white and the c0nQuering ar
my. No political future be devised after
such result, except despOtism or strict al.
ministraton of law which would be equiya.
lent tO Il. The millions of blacks would l.
certainly be re enslayed by the whites, whcth
er Northern cOnquerors Southern
quered men, society resumed its laws,
and the necessities OF life aud labor and the
relations OF the dependent and supporter, the
serving and the served, became necessary tor the
renovated social system. Even in this extreme
case, We have no idea that a vast and extended
system OF slavery can be permanently removed
from nation by conquest and military occu-
patton without destroying the nation. Armies
are not apostles of liberty, and the result of
forced disruption OF the bond between Southern
slaves and their masters would be TO prove the
necessity OF restoring the relation for the protec
ton Of both Us we'll rs TOR the best good of the
conquerors.
That is very easy philanthropy to practice
which looks on men alar of and deals with reIa.
tons between classeS in distant countries. But
if tie millions of Southern blacks were thrown
on our nation paupers to be fed, clothed. aud
protected or furnished with means OF providing
Tor themselves, II Is not improbable that nine
tenths OF the advocates OF emancipation would
be ut once deyising systems OF exclusion, or OF
compulsory labor. or other forms of slavery
In whatever aspect the future is viewed, this
black race IS the subject of profound solicitude,
and political economists and wise statesmen re
gard their sudden, their gr dual freedom, If
they remain among us. as the worst possible flu
ture both Tor them and for the country Within
quarter OF century alter freeing them. the
mere necessity OF the case would have reduced
them To slavery, for though might call our
new labor system by some other name it would
be th,t and nothing else.
But has the war given q deathblow to slavery
in any other wayI There is to-day in the y Orth-
ern mind general desire that some plan OF
emancipation may be devised which will be agree
able to the South and result in the final extinc
ton of slavery. There Is undoubtedly in the
minds OF wise Southern men "A sincere wish that
some system could be devised a substitute lOr
tins But the moral effect OF the war has been
20 increase the Southern attachment to the insti
tuition, and il is very mnch To be doubted whether
il has not increased in Northern States dislike
to the race OF blacks. The question recurring
on the admission OF the colored race to equal
position with the whites. even on their being
allowed To enter the free States and settle there
a strong disposition To exclude them is every
where manifested. Ii is plain that it to day the
people OF the United States could give freedom
to the entire negro race, with the condition AN
nexed that they should be free to overrun the
country. nine tenths of the people, ninety and
nine haudredths of them would refuse the word
OF freedom This disposition only shows what
the inevitable future would be ii the race were
freed and left among US. Amalgamation will
never be permitted, and the co-exlstence of two
races in the same country, without amalgama-
ton, is political status the result of which his
tory points out.
In considering the present state of the minds
of anti slavery men, il is important to draw "A
distinction between TWO feelings, hatred 10 slave
~. and hatred TO the slav eholder Ii the present
sentiment of the North were sincere indlgna.
tion against slavery, then we might argue from
1t that some y stem would be devised for getting
rid OF the institution But il, as is true the
Northern radicali>m Is but bitter eumity To the
stakeholder, and the enmlty to the Institution Is
carried on Ia destroy the uphOlders of il. then il
- pirin that sys em i likely To he desired
which will change the state OF the slave, unless
tor the worse.
Any wholesale abolition of slavery i'm the
South would of course be a destruction of the
social system, and would probably result very
soon IL a WIZ ct races IL would be in effect the
ruin OF the country. Neither the people OF
America, nor the world are ready for the relapse
into barbaI sm which would be the necessary re
suit.
1t We emerge from the with a united coun
try. and Constitution unimpaired, there Is rea
son TO believe that system will be sought out
by good men for putting an cad 10 slavery and
removing the negro race; but the heavy debt of
the nation, the necessities of Southern industry
To recuperate the South, the demands OF the
North and of the world at large the products
OF the South will then operate to strengthen the
present system. and its final removal will have
been postponed, rather than accelerated by the
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