The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-09-05

such place and under such circumstances,
could not be expected 10 continue long
before tho nogro race would begin to mani
fest some sensibility and some excitement
We have arrived at that stage already
Everywhere the American general receives
his most usofnl and reliable information
from tho negro, who balls his coming as a
harbinger of freedom. Wherever tho Ma
tiOnal army advancc into the insurrectionary
region, African bondmen, escaping from
their insurrectionary masters, come out to
meet it, and oifor their services and labor in
whatever capacity thoy may be desired. SO
many of these bondmen have, even without
the invitation, and often against tho opposl-
ton OF tho Federal military and naval au.
thorities, made their way from bondage
among tho insurgents to freedom among the
ioyalists, that the Government finds itsolt
occupied with the consideration of measures
to provide them with domcs ut hOule or
abroad. not less than 100 such escape every
day aud as the army advances the number
increases. 1t the war should continue in.
definitely, every slave will become, not only
free man, but an absentee. Ii the insur-
gents shall resist their escape, how could
they hope to prevent tho civil war they have
inauguratcd from dcgenerating into serviC
war. True, sorvile population, especially
one so long cnslavnd as the Africans in the
insurrcctonary States. require time and
trial boioro thoy can organize servle war
but If the war continues indefinitely, u ser,
vile war is only "a question of timo The
problem, then, is whethor tho strife shall be
left to 60 to that point. Tho Government
animated by q Just regard for tho general
welfare, including that of the insurroctonary
/ NIL Ins 4.
save tho Union aud rescuo society from thai
fearful catastrophe, while it oonsults tn,
ultimate peaceful relief of tho Nation from
Slavery.
p He thus depicts the results Of foreign
intervention:
Let us now suppose that any one OF
more European States should think il
! right or expedient to intervene by force tc
obigc the United Stales to effect com.
promise Of her sovereignty. What other
effect could it produce than TO render in
cvitable, and even hurry on, that tervile
war so completely destructive of all Eu.
ropcan interests in this country, which
this country so studiously strives to avoid?
know that the danger Of any foreign ma
ton attempting such policy, if it has
ever existed, has passed, as | am happy
in knowing that no foreign Government
has ever threatened such intervention
while several magnanimous Governments
have repudia,ed all unlrendly designs.
| have put forward that hypothesis only
by way of preface to question not less
signitcant-namely, what must be the
effect Of such policy abroad as will en-
courage the insurgents with hopes of an
Intervention which is never to occur? Is
not that effect visible in the obslnacy ol
the insurgents, in their destruction of the
cotton and tobacco already cultivated and
liable 10 be brought into commerce by
the return Of peace, and in their studied
neglect of the planting the seeds of lheil
staples, and turning SO much of the Ari.
can labor as they are able to save into
the production of supplies OF prorsion and
forage, to enable them to continue the
war?
The effect will be further developed as
time goes on ir opening a way for that
servilc war, which, if it shall be permitted
TO come, will produce infinite suffering
throughout the world, and can only al
last result in an entirely new system o
trade and commerce between the United
States and all foreign nations.