Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-11
The Policy of Emancipation.
LETTER FROMROBERT DALE Owl

liberty itself, it was the part Of wisdom in the
north to abstain from interference with the
danger-fraught domestic institution of the
south. and to trust to time for its eradication;
opposed, with a hereditary aversion, to war, |
was willing, before the sword was drawn, to
make any honorable concessions that might
avert its horrors.
But political commissions bring with them
great lessons and new duties. War would
not, under the divine economy, have been
permitted, as in all past ages it has been, if it
had not Its mission But to attain the good it
brings we must recognize its necessities No
civil war OF proportions so gigantic as that
now raging, ever existed in the world before.
1t differs from all others, both in the results
sure to ensue from its protraction beyond
brief period, and in the conditions under
which, out Of evil, it may eventuate in good.
In calculating these, time is an essential ele-
ment.
Seven or eight hundred millions are spent.
AT the best, as much more is likely to 60
| Two thousand millions or upwards is not an
improbable total. That is half the national
debt of England; and the interest on it
! (probably at almost double the rate she pays)
will make our annual burden nearly equal to
hers If the war lasts three years longer,
these figures may be doubled. 1t must not
last three years longer, unless we are willing
to risk national bankruptcy.
How is it to be terminated?
By concession? That is no longer in our
power. We can buy truce, a pause, by
concession to the south; nothing more.
BY force of arms, then? But if by force,
it must be quickly DONE Delay is defeat
And it must be effectually done. After one
such war the nation may revive, its energies
| still ella Snluapt md
second will ruin it financially, to say nothing
of worse ruin. To save the country, then,
the war must not terminate without a suffi-
Gent guaranty against its resumption.
How can the war be quickly and etfectually
| terminated? What guaranty is sufficient
that it will not be resumed?
Gradually, very gradually, as this contest
| proceeded, have been approaching the con-
Viction that there is but one such guaranty
the emancipation of negro slaves throughout
this continent. Perhaps-but as to this | am
less certain-that measure is the only sure
means Of terminating, quickly and eflectually,
| this war. The recent reverse under General
| Mcclellan, the scattered rebel fires daily
bursting forth in states which our forces had
already oyerrun, the fact that we are fighting
| against brave men of our own race, all in
crease the probability that we must deprive
| the south OF a legal right to its four millions
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running of railroad, are held in this and
other civilized countries to be objects of suf-
ficient Importance to Justify what the French
law calls Representation foicie pom. cGpse d'
utilize PHblicque." But of Importance how
utterly trivial is the opening of a street or of
a railroad compared to the preservation, in its
integrity, of the greatest republic upon earthl
Ought we to declare general emancipation,
coupled with a provision for the payment, to
All loyal slaVeholders, OF the fairly apprlsed
yaiue Vi tiielr slaves ms question resolves
II lhto announcer lave things gone so far that
Ihe Union, III It's peaceful integrity, and ne
Sro-slavery within Its borders, can no longer
coeAlst! Ihat Is THE GREAT QUESTION OF
THE DAY. tnlIlK 1t must be answered, even
now IN the affirmative. Every month that
passes Is converting hundreds OF thousands of
moderate, and conservative, and peace-loving
men to the same opinion They despair of
sectional friendship or national peace, until
the teehlng cause OF mortal hatred and civil
war Is rooted out forever.
Have we the means of paying loyal slave
owners falr price for their slaves! If we
act now, before protracted contest has eX-
hausted our resources, yes. If we wait the
termination OF a three or four years war, very
certainly, not. In that price deportation must
not be estimated. The south asserts that ne
gro slaves are indispensable to her. That is
only so far true, that she does absolutely need
hired negro workmen, and ought not to be
deprived OF them. Her agriculture would,
for time, be ruined without them. But no
good man desires a settlement under which
any section of our country would be even
temporarily ruined.
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strong her nreipdices and t,aditio,,s i, fo,,o,.
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