Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-09-05
wHAI THE WAR is DOING ron
sLANEMN

He must be not only stupidity blind, but
criminaly indifferent to the teachings of
current experience, who cannot or will
not see that the present war Of treason
against the Union is working out the des
tiny of slavery, and that its doom is in
eyitably and forever fixed, not only in the
minds of the American people, but also
in the everlasting future of the Republic,
Everywhere public opinion has arrayed
itself against the barbarous institution
and nowhere in the United States has
that opinion been more decidedly ex-
pressed or deeply rooted than in portions
of the Slave States themselves.
4 The Cambridge LnteNgeacer-one Of
the largest and best local papers in Mary
land-issued in the slaveholding County
of Dorchester speaks of slavery in late
issue as follows:
" 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 begun, and events have already proved
the truth of our prediction. 1t is truly.
on the part of the Rebels, war of free
dom to the black man of the South But
this is not all There is another sense in
which this is a war of freedom There
are other men in the South to be freed as
well as black men. Tie acltte men of The
South need the strong dtm Of the Goten-
me0t 10 M tie g0ke from Meir needs
These have endured a slavery far trans.
e ceuding that of the blacks. The social
system of the South has never been any
thing short of n despotlsm-a tyranny
equal to any of the Age. The mind has
for ever been bound here. Freedom o
opinion has never been tolerated below
: Mason and Dixon's Line. Men have moi
4 been permitted to hold. much less express
their own opinions. A man might con
conscientiously have believed Slavery tC
have been burden upon the State, bn
d he dare not let the public know that sucl
c were his convictions. He would at one,
@ be prescribed in his business, and happ,
= indeed might he be, if he escaped withou
coat of lar and feathers. Freedom o
u speech and the press was a thing unknown
l. in the South,
:, Moreover, all the legislation has beel
Is in favor of one class of the community
The Shareholders, though constituting bu
" one twenty-seyenth part Of our popula
Il ton, have ruled absolutely the Common
h wealth. And even Shareholders, Them
G, selves ruling, have not permitted then
N selves to do as they pleased with thei
=. own property, About two years since
u the Legislature passed law iorbiddn
any one from freeing their own slave
=. either by manumission during lifetime @
r. by will after their death Here is blind
ness as well as tyranny. Such acts are
u lasting disgrace TO our manhood The
enslave the master as much as his negro.
II. Let the mind be free Let the acu
y, ties be uniettered There can be neithe
- prosperity nor happiness where these al
= enslaved. 1t is degrading TO any peopl,
p We shall never accomplish our magnii
re cent destiny until these are free. I'll
ro war is unbinding them. Tile b,te glory,
:. the ,cqr Is not Mat i HJefotes he 5iu,
u. bit tie chjte men cfMe .SoaM. They al
sh already beginning 10 shout for joy An
when the war closes, they will join the
on voices in one loud halleluah to the &c
- of Liberty for their delivcrance. "
u, look with pride and JOY to the good tin
nd coming when American freemen shall
-ly free in deed, as well as in name