Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-08
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The Cambridge Intelligencer, one of the
most widely circulated and ably edited Of
the local papers of Maryland, and which
is published in the large slaveholding
County of Dorchester, gives hearty vel
come to the Proclamation Of the President,
and in the course of its remarks de-
scribes the influence of the slave institu-
ton in this wise
ave 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 began, and events have already proved
the truth Of our prediction. 1t is truly,
on the part Of the rebels, war Of freedom
to the black man of the South. But this
is net all. There is another sense in which
this is a toar Of freedom. There are other
men in the South to be freed than the
black men. The white men of the South
need the strong arm of the government to
lift the yoke from their necks. These
have endured a slavery far transcending
that of the blacks. The social system Of
the South has never been anything short
of a despotism-a tyranny equal to any Of
the age. The mind has forever been bound
here. Freedom of opinion has never been
tolerated below Mason and Dixon's line.
Men have not been permitted to hold,
much less express, their own opinions.
A man might conscientiously have be-
lieved slavery to be a burden upon the
state, but he dare not let the public know
that such were his convictions. He would
at once be prescribed in his business, and
happy indeed might he be if he escaped
without a coat of tar and feathers. Free
dom Of speech and the press was thing
unknown to the South.
Moreover all the legislation has been
in favor of one class of community. The
Shareholders, though constituting but one
twenty-seventh part Of our population;
have ruled absolutely the commonwealth.
And even Shareholders, themselves ruling,
have not permitted themselves to do as
they please with their own property
About two years since, the legislature
passed law forbidding any one from free
ing his own slaves either by manumission
during lifetime, or by will after death
Here is blindness as we'll as tyranny
Such acts are lasting disgrace to our
manhood. They enslave the master as
much as his negro.
Let the mind be free Let the fscul-
ties be unfettered There can be neither
prosperity nor happiness where these are
enslaved 1t is degrading to any people
We shall not accomplish our magnificent
destiny until these are free. The war is un-
binding them. The true glory of the war
is not that it liberates the black, but the
white men of the South. They are already
beginning to shout for joy. And when the
war closes, they will join their voices in
one loud halleluiah to the God of Liberty
for their leliveranee We look with pride
and joy to the good time coming when
American freemen shall be free in deed, as
well as in name"
To the above the New York Post adds
This is, every word of it, true; and the
longer the war is protracted, the more
distinctly will the truth be seen by the
white laboring classes Of the South. They
have been heretofore little more than the
serfs of the aristocratic slaveholding class
es, STEPPED in their prejudices, misled by
their falsohoods and wholly dependent up
on their interests. But the light is begin
ming to break through the darkness in
which they long have been held. DemOc-
racy, and slavery, or the whole system Of
Southern society, said Mr. Garnett of Vir-
ginia, in his letter to Mr.. Trescott of
South Carolina, are incompatible, and
the workingmen among the whites will
soon be of the same conviction"