Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-10-14

GEuvED ABROAD fKET
Ftknaly Canadian iournais, as Tar - We
csf<lesriy in favor Of de Pfesidsnt's procia-
nlaxicn. Among these the most influential and
outspoken is the Toronto Globe, which is the
which have been neutral or adverse to the
Union cause are coming ont favorably since
the proclamation. Among these We may men- :
ton the Montreal Herald which, in . recent
Where ser and whsneyer the federal armies
shall amer the list Of January be within reach
OF runn Ways, there ana then tns presentation zion
become very active and powerful wartike
engine. The approximations Of the South do
nol eIaxEerate its importance, as q means Of
Of the Confederates, and OF proportionaliy iu4
creasing that OF the federals. But we entertain
transportation OF any Of those horrors, which
The ina inAfion Of the South conjrres up as the
NATURAL revenge which race brutalixed on
calculation may be expected to take on its op-
pressors when 1t obtains the upper hand.
81. Domingo IL Always in the mouths OF those
who think black man cannot make himself
free without murder, rape and arson; just as
the French revolution is always in the mouths
insist upon mobiles and clergy being subject to
equal laws with the rest of their fellow citizens,
and kings bring made To rule in consonance
with constitution, without committing the
tine for their soyereigns. There was q time
when the British pro.sla very party enjoyed
palmy days, and owned negroes, instead Of, as
now, enyyiDg those who owned them. Most Of
us, who have reached the middle age, can re 2
collect all this bowling about st Domingo from
that party, IN precisely the-same words as we
hear Il now coming to rs from the South.
fWhatever by the exact nature.vf the blow
which the proclamation will infiict, the South,
as We have said, is testify ing great alarm and
peopsrtionate anger In expectation of its fall-t
ing. cThey threAtena the black nag, and no
quarter, and especially that emancipation
should he held mp to the execration Of man
kind OF course, any beligerent government
may, II IL pleases, adept the rules of savage
warfare instead of those which prevail among
civilized people. But 1t must be plain that no
case for cruel retaliation will arise under the
general rules OF war, against the North for
Every belligerent, % far as we know, assumes
the right to avail itself Of the voluntary ser.
vices Of the Inhabitants OF the country with
which it Is at war, and it is manifest that IL
one belligerent can by q law of its own set
apart q portion Of its population as sacred
from the ordinary casualties Of war, il would
thus put the other party to great disadvantages.
When the Confederates entered Maryland
they used all the sympathy they received-why
should not the North use all the sympathy It
can make available in Virginial When recently
tho Southerners talked Of allowing no quarter
to armies in which black men served they
talked, about rule which they might adopt,
subject TO all the responsibilities. But before
talking about in yoking ON the employment of
such troope the execration of mankind, they
should remember that two nations who GER
tainl5 do not esteem themselves inferior in civ
ilixafion, constantly employ troops of the de.
tested color, and that one of them England1 has
whole armies OF black men. a.s't s