The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-11-18
Slavery Along the Border.

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late proclamation because certain parts
of tho slave territory were exempted
from the operation Of his emancipation
scheme, and those the only sections
where his new policy could have boon
tested. They thought he, ought to have
made the measure general in ITS appli.
cation, fiat all; not exempting tho three
or tour border slave States, or such
parts of them as have so.callod repre-.
sentatives at Washington. But abOli.
tionism did not exact this. They did
not want it now They thought that
the so.called loyal men Of Maryland,
Kentucky and Missouri were not yet
sufficiently degraded, demoralizsd, and
so hardened to every native sensibility
as to bear the full weight Of tho aboli.
ton yoke of degradation. Temporary
expediency, military necessity and such
like explanations, would perhaps break
the blow of the proclamation. Later
events have too certainly indicated tho
correctness of these abolition calcula.
tions with reference to the effects OF
tho proclamation upon the falsely styled
loyalists of'tho States named above
And if they ever wake out of their sad
delusiou, they may say with Young IN
his Night thoughts: ''' '''' '''
GLOW like a worm was l wrapped round and
round 'A H H" N.- a'a- ..
In subtle thought which reptile fancy spun,
Till darkened reason lay qui Q clouded DER
With soft conceit." t'.'' ..
Abolitionism has o its web OF
death around them.
That trio of most unhappy States no
doubt are well stocked with busy crea.
lures of abolition who ure operating
upon all, both white and black, whose
ear they a gain to their vile pcrsua.
sions. The slaves there will have diff
Guilty in approaching the larger vi,ws
of State policy. which induced Mr.. Lin
coin to be so partial in his negro love,
as to exempt them from his embraces;
and the consequence may be that the
shareholders of Maryland, Kentucky
and Missouri, will feel the evil effect of
Lincoln's infamous proclamation even
more severely than the slave owners in
the States south of them, inasmuch as
it practically legalizes negro stealing
1t is not to DO supposed that the aboli
J tionists, who SO hunger and thirst after
the negro, will leave such a rich field
as the one those three helpless States
now present, uncultivated; or that they
will be content to yield up to Mr. Lin
E. ~coln's armies all their work which they
!, used to follow under such difficulties.
Think not that ''"." TED ,a''if".-
."Othello's occupations gone"
The idea whick has been put forward
|" in one or two localities, looking to TIN
: possible contingency that those State
8 may not come into tho Confcderacy
r and reconciling US for tho loss of then
upon the ground that a tier of STAY
9 communities along the border wouli
be of some advantage, is not atall prat
= tical; for the reason that abolitionist
would not suffer slavery to contin
. ue there, or cease. to work their un
:, Underground machinery Of man .robber.
. while a CANADIAN snowbank should b
left to hide a negro in. oar |' .,,
-. Tho only safety tor slavery in Mary
= land, Kentucky, and Missouri, is in tn
Confederacy. 'oan.4 '0n: bias ao'oa = q
10 NoTE-We have rood authority fo