The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-10-17
"The True Glory Of tho WARP

The Cambridge IuteNigencer, one of the
most widely circulated and ably edited Of
the local journals OF Maryland, and which
ispublished in helarge slaveholding county
of Dorchester, gives hearty welcome to
the Proclamation of the President, and in
the course of its remarks describes the in
fluence of the slave institution in this wise ::
We have never doubted that the war
which the rebels have inaugurated, would
prove to be the destruction of slavery. We
so warned the people at the time that it
began, and events have already proved the
truth of our prediction. 1t is truly, on the
part of the rebels, a war of freedom
to the black man of the South. But
this is not all. There is another sense
IN uhidb this is acar Of freedom.
There are other men in the South to be
freed as well as black men. "The white
men of the South need the strong arm
of the government to lift the yoke from
their necks" They have endured a sla-
very far transcending that of the blacks
The social system of the South has never
been anything short of despotism-a tyr
amy equal to any of the age. The mind
has forever been bound here. Freedom of
opinion has never been tolerated below
Mason and Dixons line. Men have not
been permitted to hold, much less express,
their own opinions. A man might consci-
entiously have believed slavery to be a
burden upon the state, but he dare not let
the public know that such were his cOnvic-
tons. He would at once be prescribed in
his business, and happy indeed might he
be if he escaped without coat OF tar and
feathers. Freedom of speech and the press
was thing unknown in the South. *
Moreover all the legislation has been in
favor of one class of the community. The
shareholders, though constituting but one
twenty-seventh part of our population,
have ruled absolutely the commonwealth.
And even shareholders, themselves ruling,
have not permitted themselves to do as
they pleased with their own property.
About two years since, the legislature pas
sed a law fOrbidding any one from freeing
his own slaves either by manumission dur
ing lifetime, or by will after death. Here
is blindness as well as tyranny. Such acts
are lasting disgrace to our manhood
They enslave the master as much as his
negro.
Let the mind be free! Let the faculties
be unfettered! There can be neither
prosperity nor happiness where these are
enslaved. 1t is degrading to any people.
We shall never accomplish our magnificent
destiny until these are free. The war is
unbinding them. The true glory of the
arar is not that it Hberotes Tie black, bit
tie achite men Of The South. They are al
ready beginning to shout for joy. And
when the war closes, they will join their
voices in one loud hallelujah to the God
of Liberty for their deliverance. We look
with pride and joy to the good time COM
ing when American freemen shall be free
in deed, as well as in name.
This is, every word of it, true; and the
longer the war is protracted, the more dis
tinctly will the truth be seen by the white
laboring classes of the South. They have
been heretofore little more than the serfs
of the aristocratic slaveholding classes,
stepped in their prejudices, misled by their
falsehoods and wholly dependent upon
there interests. But the light is beginning
to break through the darkness in which
they have long been held. Democracy,
and slavery, or the whole system of south
ern society,"" said Mr.. Garnett of Virginia,
in his letter to Mr.. Prescott of South Caro-
lima, "are incompatible" and the working
men among the whites will soon be of the
same conviction.