, 1863-02-19

But whether he has been bought in this
matter or moi, it is no matter to the areu-
mcnt-for there stands the damnine article
against him, and the British Government!
And what is the alleged ground Of this
attack upon President Lincoln and his
Cabinet? Listen to it, Oh" Long-earca Ex-
ete1 HallP' and you, &c Black Emancira-
tors! md you, ye big-heartcd British folk,
who gave some hundred millions OF dollars
to free your own Quashccs in the Vest In
dies! Hear it, NC say, for the charge
against President Lincoln is that hc has
freed the Slaves Of the Southern rebcls-in
other words, that he has done precisely the
same thing for America which you have
done so graciously for England amid the
acclamations Of the world, by setting at:
liberty those eight hundred thousand black
Islanders, at go vast IN expense to your
hrceches pocketst : i.
What was good, and noble, and gencr-
GUS in Great Britain, is wicked policy"
in President Lincoln! The document
which announced and sealed the freedom
Of British slaves. is thing to gladden. the
heart Of God, and make him large
debtor to the English pcople-but the ex-
actly similar document issued by slr. Lin
coin will leave blot Of lasting infamy
On the history Of the 1rief ezistcnce Of tie
american Union!'
The horrors Of the Indian Massacre will
shrink into nothingncss, compared with
the dreadful scenes and barbarities which
the Government Organ" Of Abolition
England, predicts will result from the Lin
coin Proclamation. "Thrce millions of
slaves," says the Government Organ"
"turned at once upon their masters, and
their masters families, may effect, it Is
Economically hoped, what million Of SOL
diers have attempted in rain. Against any
military designs Of the Northern army the
Contcderates are more Than prepared. In
the fair struggle Of battle they can
hold their own, if they cannot seize the
strougholds Of their assai1ants. But against
the simultaneous uprising Of three millions
Of negroes, seizing the property of their
absent masters, burning their houses, raw
ishing their wives and daughters, slaught-
ering their children, running flantically TO
every sort Of excess, set loose without the
means Of living or golernment-against
this no military skill, no prudent prccau-
tons, can avail. Yet these are the means
to which the degraded government of the
Northern States has stopped to lend itself"
These are specimens of the 1nountcbank
clap~t1ap to which the deg AIDED "Govern-
ment organ" has stopped to lend itself!
Docs this said organ" remember who it
was that authorized and associated" with
the British arms "the tommahawk and
the scalping-knife Of the savage" during
the Revolutionary ware Docs it remem-
Der the denunciation Of Lord Chatham
against the degradation to which the Brit,
ish Government stopped to lend itself, on
this memorable occasion, by its alliance
with the bloody and merciless, redskins
Has it forgotten the service which native
Indian troops have so often rendered tt
the British croTn-tllat it should thus be
spatter us with its malignant virus, be
cause we have set our slaves free, and con
verted them into regiments Of soldiers
Or are sepoys and Indian savagcs so supe
rior to negroes that what is a degradation
in the employment Of the one is a virtue il
that Of the other?
| Lord Palmcrston did not predict tina
such dire consequences would issue from
British Emancipation, as he so confdentl,
and exrltingly proclaims will come from
American Emancipation! He had not tn
motive nor the cue for doing it, in the on
, case, as he has in the other. And this
the sole reason why he denounces us. Fo
no one knows, better than he, that the fret
dom Of the West India slaves produce
none Of the horrors which lie so infamousl
prophesfes will come from the freedom I
: ours. The British free slaves did not mu
;. der, nor burn, nor ravish, nor do any 9th
:; Of the wicked things paraded in the "Be
-, tic Holders" catalogue. Why, then, shou
- - ours? Or have the wrongs Of our slay
A. been so utterly uncomfortable that they 4
not to be trusted SO far as the Britt
\, trusted tl,ei1se
u This all~seeing article tells us that th
u are not to be trusted-that wholesale mi
~ sacres are certain what is more, til
~ President Lincoln has done lis best to 1,i
u d1Gut a massacre ~
y, Horrible as this must appear, even
~ brought against q private person, it
X comes immcasurably 50, when bFoug
o' against the President Of the United Stat
X who represents, in his person and Off
et1 twenty-five millions Of free citizens. cyt
IT. one Of whom, is a!taintcd by the leprosy
H. this most infamous falsehood.
lls l Nor can We afford to put this voice fr
~. m the Government Organ aside, as the m
49,. I empty blare Of d paid l1rcEng, or an
raSed ma1man. It means more than
~ ~ says, and God knows it says enough tina
~ ~ plain and unmistakablc evil to us-t
~ it indicates much more that is bill
~ enulity 10 our institutions and Cove
as .nent.