Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-25
The New sPoIicy.v

The president stated, on Sunday, in the
hearing of several gentlemen, that he had
done with Throwing grass and henceforth
should conduct the war with severity.-AeW
York Erening Post.
The lenient policy which has hitherto pre-
vailed in the conduct of the war has proven
to the world by what kind and beneficent mo-
tives our government is actuated. Compelled
to march through hostile country, the
Union army has taken its supplies along with
it, scarcely dreaming of the possibility of
drawing support from the people whom it was
sent to reconcile or conquer. Ifin the haste with
which disloyal freeholders were compelled to
abandon their estates, they neglected to
make suit able arrangements for their preser-
walton, we have courteously loaned the SER
vices of good union men to guard them from
INJURY and decay. If their slaves, preferring
the service of loyal men to their masters,
have escaped-with generosity which itwould
be difficult TO parallel, we have sent the
wretches back to their chains.
The Inconvenience of such policy-to call
it by no ungentle name-is evidenced in the
failure of more than one campaign. 1t has
required precious time and heavy calamity to
teach us the gravity of the mistake. There
have been prophets enough who foresaw how
dangerous it was, but their warnings, like
Cassandras, have fallen upon unheedng ears.
But there is, at last, to be change of poll
cy. Heaven grant the promise may not be
one of those kept to the ear but broken to the
hope! The Washington correspondent OF the
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which there was an extraordinary degree of
unanimity:
There was some tenderness towards the
border slave states, even on the question OF
slavery, but none whatever towards the gulf
and Atlantic slave states. l hazard the opin-
ion that the policy of the government will be
to totally overthrow slavery in the cotton and
sugar-growing states by every method in its
power. 1t will not stick at any obsta-
Giles, being convinced that the only hope
of making those states obedient is to en-
tirely destroy slavery in them. Total aboli-
tion in the states of South Carolina, Georgia.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
IS resolved upon, or | am greatly msinform-
ed. There will be no proclamation upon the
subject, but it is none the less the fixed policy
OF the government. Mr.. Lincoln has pre-
JUDGE against anti-slavery proclamations,
and will quietly inform his generals of his
purposes, and will make no flourish in the
matter nor permit them to make any. With
slavery abolished in the Gulf and Atlantic
states, it will take care of itself elsewhere
will gradually expire.
This is promising; and in one way or an
other we believe it will be made effectual. 1t
Is right; and in the end it must triumph.
Nothing less will satisfy people who have
watched for signs of recompense for their sac
rlhces and sutferings till they were weary.
Nothing less would atone for the inmeasura-
bic wrong the gulf states have done to the re-
public, if the war were this hour brought to
an end But why should the governmental
to trust the people with the theory upon which
it proposes to act? The president does not
doubt the loyalty of Kentucky Has he not
as good reason to rely upon the imnlov-
able~devotion of the free northwest of whose
civilization he is himself the type aud exam
pie? Can he question the good faith under
any circumstances of the imperial states of
New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio? Can he
hesitate lest New England should waver-
whose colors have been borne in the front
rank ofall the armies of the republic-a cloud
by day and pillar of fire by night? No.
They staked their all at the outset on the al
tar of their country, and with the united
strength Of twenty millions of people pledged
1t all to the president for the destruction of the
rebellion-cost what it might All they ask
istobe trustedin return. Let thepresident who
is engaged ina great andholy work, declare his
purpose in language of which it is worthy.
and they will respond to it with alacrity and
pride becoming a people whose prosperity
has not degraded them, and whose freedom
has not caused them to forget the claims of
those who are by right as free, and with the
opportunity, would be by choice as loyal as
themselves.