The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-05-30
The Effect in Europe

However Indifferent as to Slavery the
people on this side Of tho Atlantic, whose
Interests arc most deeply affected by it,
may soon to DO, in Wow of tho fearful
struggle in which il has involved them, it is
certain that Europeans regard its extinction
as of paramount Importance. Their np-
parent want OF sympathy with the Union
cause is not due solely to hatred and jealousy
of Republican institutions, for they have
doubted, from the first, tho sincerity of the
North. Being unable to appreciate, at their
distance, the d ticulties by which our Gov.
ernmo0t is surrounded, and sooing in It's
movements an undue drfereucc to the sole
cause Of the Rebellion, tho war hus seemed
TO them mere contest between tLo North
aud South, to determine whether Slavery
shall bo maintained in the Union or ont OF
It, "When you will chow u.s." say they
''that your war. so Injurious to tho com.
merce of Europe, is for Freedom, we will
bid you God speed but, until then, we have
no further interest in it than TO desire its
President Lincoln, recommending the in
auguration of the policy OF gradual emanci
patton, mild and conservative as it seemed
TO many Anti Slavery men, Gxerted more
powerful Influence in our favor in Europe
than all our previous successes, because il
was q step in the right dirootion-a rccog.
milton of tho fact, so evident to the uu.
prejudceG world, that Slavery is ncompati.
bic with permanent peace and union, and
should perish. That Message did for the
North what King Cotton had failed to de
for the South--it gave us the sympathy ot
Europe. Other causes have sine otransplroG
10 strengthen thatsympathy, tho most i'm
portant Of which is the abolition of SLAYER,
in the District of Columbia. Tho London
Times, slow to do justice to tho North
thus remarks Upon this wise aud bencfccut
act
Neither Englishmen nor Fronchnon have
boon forward TO recognize the fact that Tho
l6th of April, 1862 was a day which viii
stand in American History as tho creates
day since that of the signing of the Declarn
tion of lndependouce--the day Of this cen
tury which will be honorod through all tipe
whatever may be tho destiny in store 70
the Republic. When tho traditions of So
and land victorius arc becoming dim, whol
the grass has grown high on tho graves o
tallen heroes, that day will stand highest il
thu scale of national festivals. and tho re
formers of the second revolution will sorn
to form, in the visa of tho past, on,
vuif hn pF hn
that day tho people of the States ceased tl
DO slavehoding nation Till then thorC
had been gulf iixod between them and all
those Christian nations which had outgrown
the barbarism OF holding mou as slaves and
now tho nation has come over to tho side
on which wo stand. 1t is now outlled 10
act and speak as FREQ nation should. Ii il
now qualified to act with us, without mis-
giving and without hypocrisy, against the
slayo trade, /, is no longer q subject fol
the skopticism and scorn Of tho world, be
cause of the contrast between its profession
and its practice. After u struggle botweeI
tho beat and the worst clements of its so
cIety-a struggle prolonged through tw,
generations--it has abolished slavery on th,
national territory and tho National Gov
ernment has ceased to DO a slaveholling
power. Slavery has sunk to mere Stat,
institution, and deprived of national sanction
and support, ard exposed. us IL now is, t.
the condemnation OF tho American Govern.
mont, together with all other governments
u cannot long sustain itself under the scorr
aud oathing Of human society. AS u ma
ti0nai institution it could assume to dull
foreign opinion. Asa domestic institution.
reprobated at Washington us in London nut
Paris, its doom is plain, and its strength il
broken