Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-25
The Emancipation Proclamation In En-
gland.

The Emancipation Proclamation in En-
gland.
The presidents emancipation proclamation
was published entire in all the London papers
of the 9Th instant, and the editorial comments
appeared in the issues of the 9TH. The seces-
sionists journals are evidently alarmed at the
prospect Of its effect upon the slaves, but the
journals which are friendly to us greet the
measure with expressions of the highest ap-
prevail The London Morning Star says:
"The inevitable day has come at last
There is an end of impossible attempts to re-
store an organized compromise. Republican
institutions and resources are no longer to be
employed in the protection ofthe slave system
that has made war upon them. Negro eman-
cipation is formally and defnitively adopted
as the policy, in war and peace, of the United
States. 1t is indisputably the great
fact of the war-the turning point in the his
tory Of the american commoRWeaith-an act
only second IN courage and in probable re-
suits to the Declaration of Independence.
That 1t has been so long postponed indicates
ats immense graUity. That it follows on
great military success, not on a defeat, indi-
Gates the spirit in which it is adopted But
few days earlier, it would have been univer-
sally regarded as a confession or despairing
consciousness that the forces of the north
were unable to grapple even on northern soil
with those of the south. 1t comes now as a
defiance to the power that is still strong
enough to maintain its frontier, though COM
PEELED to relinquish its aggressive designs.
And its PRONUNCIATION will no doubt arrest the
proposed despatch of commissioners from
Richmond to Washington, to negotiate the
terms of "a just and honorable peace. The
federal government has anticipated the con-
federate congress in such proposals. The
only peace the rulers of the Union desire is
one compatible with the restoration of con-
stitutional relations and the abolition of COM
pulsory servitude-peace with justice for its
basis, freedom for its object, federal laws and
the universal sympathy of mankind for its
protection"
"The slaves need wait no longer
for the signal that their concealed and wary
leaders have prudenty withheld. In every
Cane-brake and rce-swamp-among the bales
of boarded cotton and the trees of the pine
forests-the negro may hold his council of
qCGr and geSolre to strike for freedom. He
may safely and wisely forego his vengeance
for past wrongs. His cause is at length the
cause of mighty and resolute people. The
flat has gone forth, and the heart of humani-
ty will hail its execution. On new years day,
1868, slavery will cease to defle the American
flag, and begin to disappear from the Ameri-
can soil"
The London News exposes the sophistries
of De BOWS Review and the Richmond Ex-
aminer, and argues that the south would never
have relinquished the institution Of slavery
voluntarily. 1t says:
&C 'The economic evils of slavery will COM
pei emancipation we are told. But has it
ever been so? The normal condition of slave
holders is one of debt and embarrassment
mOrtgaged estates, children without prospect,
and their fathers honor always in jeopardy.
But have these embarrassed proprietors ever
resorted to an experiment of free labor for re-
lief? Never. 1t has been forced upon them
where it has ever been introduced; and they
have invariably damaged their chances by
making the change as tardy, as slow, and as
grudging and imperfect as possible. Where
the Shareholders are the ruling power we may
be assured that nothing short of a seryile in
surrection will induce emancipation, unless
the civil war proceeds till the point is Sc
cured"
The tory journals, with a howl of rage over
the proclamation, as was to have been expect
ed, and the Liverpool Mercury, is especially
concerned with the thought that the negroes
will rise in instruction. 1t says -
eve are greatly afraid that this open and
formal invitation of the federal government to
the negroes to rise against their masters and
their families, will give to the future stages OF
this dreadful civil war ferocity and cruelty
which it has not hitherto displayed. So far,
the treatment Of prisoners on both sides has
been tolera6ly humane, and since the recent
treaty between the federal and confederate
governments for the exchange of prisoners, il
has been even indulgent ON both sides. We
fear, however, that this will no longer be the
case when the federal soldier who enters the
confederate territory will go for the expires,
purpose of rousing the negroes to insurrectior
against their masters
The London Times says -
"When the Union existed. its constitution
gave no right either to the president alone OF
to the president and congress combined tt
abolish slavery The aboitionists assum,
that the war has conferred the right; enamel
patton was a thunderbolt placed in the hands