The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-12-03

III as HWHlanlIN can ever eulN4ll war az
all, she eI!joins the employment, by US,
of the African in this; first, because his
employment may shorten, by years, the
fratricidal struggle; and then, because,
if he is not permitted to assist in civil
lied warfare under us, and If, without
his aid, we fail to effect his liberation
and thus disappoint his hopes, he may be
overtaken by the temptation to seek free
dom and revenge in his own wild way
In accepting the liberated slave as a sol
der, we may prevent his rising as an
assassin. by the creation of negro brig
AIDES, We may avert the indiscriminate
massacres of servile instructions.
Or is there an insuperable difficulty of
caste in the way? In a contest likely to
eventuate in securing to another race
than ours the greatest of temporal bless
ings, are we determined to shut out that
race from all share in its own hberation2
Are we so enamored of the Moloch, War,
that we will suffer none but our sons to
pass through the fire? Terrible penalty
to pay, with life and death at stake, tor
a national prejudice against the South
ern Pariahl
AS to the duty of our rulers in the
premises, | cannot see according to what
principle of ethics Government, charged
with the lives of millions, the putting
down of q gigantic rebellion, and the res
toration of tranquility to the land, has
the right in Its utmost need, to scorn a
vast element of strength placed within
its reach and at its disposal; nor why, if
70 -of,,,or =, ,4-n1f .of nh ala-
ment, it should not be held responsible
for the lives it sacrifices and the hopes it
blights q sva.
But we need emancipation far less
for the material aid it affords-great,
even Indispensable, though it be-than
because of other paramount considera-
tions. 7
We have tried the experiment of a
Federal Union with a free-labor system
i'll one portion of it and slave system
in another, for eighty years; and no one
familiar with our affairs for quarter OF
a century past is ignorant that the result
has been an increaae-embitte year
by year in ever-accelerated ratio-of dis
sensions, of sectional jealousies, of ma
tional heart-burnings. When, eighteen
months since, these eliminated in war,
it was but the issue which our ablest
statesmen, looking orrowingly into the
future, had long since foretold. But if,
while yet at peace, and with all the in
huence of revolutionary "reminiscences
pleading the cause of the Union, this
diversity of labor systems, producing va
riance of character and alienation Of
feeling, proved stronger to divide than
all past memories and present interests,
to unite, what chance is there that its
bancful power for evil should cease, now,
when to thoughts of fancied injuries in
other years are added the recollections
of the terrible realities enacted on hun
dred bloody battle-felds, from which the
smoke has scarcely passed away?
None--the remotestl
A suspension onf hostilities we can
purchase; few ears respite, probably,
in which to letarn to our money-getting,
before the storm bursts forth anew with
gathered force; but if we look beyond
selfshness and the present; if our chill
dren are in our thoughts; If we are suf-
fering and expending nov, that they, in
a land of prosperity, may live and die in
peace, then must we act so that the re-
suit shall endure We must not be con-
tent to put off the evil day. The root OF
evil-the pregnant cause of the wal
that must be eradicated
Report has it that Western politi-
clan recently proposed, as the best sou-
ton of our difficulties, the recognition Of
Slavery in all the States. Such an idea
has basis of truth: namely, that a state
of war is, among us, the necessary re-
suit of conflicting labor systems. Such
an idea might even be carried out and
lead TO peace but for that progressive
spirit of Christian civilization which we
dare not openly outrage, how imperfect
ly soever we obey its humane behests.
There are a thousand reasons-geo-
graphical, commercial, political, inter-
national--why we should not consent to
a separation into two confederac cies; it is
a continEenc n 1t to be thought of or en-
tertained; but if IRE look merely 10 The
condition of lasting peace, the chance Of
maintaining it would be far better if the
independence OF the South were to be re-
cognized with her negroes emancipated,
than if she were to return to her allegi-
ance, retaining her slave system
For in the former case, the cause
of dissension being uprooted, the tenden-
cy would be to reunite, and a few years
might see us single nation again, while
in the latter, constantly active source
of irritation still existing, three years of
breathing time would not elaPse without
bringing endless quarrels and second
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Conceive reunion with Slavery still in
existence. Imagine Southern sympa-
Tiers in power among us, offering COM
promises. Suppose the South, exhaus-
| ted with military reverses and desiring
few wears armistice to recruit, decides
to accept it under the guise ofpeace and
reconstruction? What next? Thousands
of slaves, their excited hopes of emanci-
patton crushed, fleeing across the border.
A Fugitive Slave law, received by peace,
demanding their rendition. Popular
opinion in the North opposed to the law,
and refusing the demand. Renewed
war the certain consequence.
Or take, even, the alternative of re-
eognition-recognition of an indepen-
dent Confederacy, still slaveholding.
Are we, then-becoming the sole excep-
ton among the nations of the earth-to
make ourselves aiders and abettors Of
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