Winchester daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1863-1863, 1863-06-12
WINCHESTER, TENN. JUNE -, 1868.

which its Government has been
strengthened rather than weakened by
the strain which has been put upon it.
In the South there has been no shack.
ling OF the press, hear, heart, no sup.
preston of law, no abridgment of the
liberties of the citizen; but all have
rallied as one man under President
who by the dignity and moderation of
his counsels, by the high bearing of
his army, and the devotion cf his
people, has given an elevation to the
Southern cause which, slowly, incred.
ulously, reluctantly, now the third
year of the war has begun, has won
for it, irresistibly and universally, the
generous sympathics of Europe. Well,
when we turn to the North, what q
contrast is there exhibited. Its militia.
ry failures, great us they have been,
sink into insgnificance compared with
its moral doH nfall. Its war has been,
not against freedom but against civil.
cation: for, imperfect as are the ac.
counts received from Northern chan.
ncIs, and always cOlored rs they are
to its own advantage, they give us
ample evidence Of the spirit in which
the North has carried on the struggle.
Sir, in the sinkin~ Of the stone fleet
before Charleston, in the submersion of
the food producing districts of tho
Mississippi, in the brutality to women
at Now Orleans, in the shooting of
prisoners in cold blood by General
M'Neill, and in tho Presidents incite.
mcnts to q scrvile war, with all its
cruelties and horrors, we have present
ed to us revolving combination of
the barbarous ingenuity of the teroci.
ous atrocity of st. Domingo. And
while, Sir, these acts have reused the
spirit of the South, and united every
man, woman, and child in the deter.
mination TO prefer death to submission,
they have not been without their effect
in Europe. We watched the conflict
at first with wonder, with curiosity,
with interest, before our sympathies
were given to either side. But rs the
character of the war, and also the true
character Of the combatants developed
themscves-as it became visible that
the war was one for existence on the
one side and for determination on the
other, and as the full consequence to
the South of every city becoming II
New Orleans, with every governor
cmulous of the deeds which exalted
General Butler into hero, presented
themselves more wildly to the mind
Of Europe, then | do believe that
always excepting those whose political
svmpathies enlisted them sincerely on
the side of the Rcpublic,-thcre was
not u friend of freedom and humanity
in Europe who did not feel u concious,
hope daily growing up and strengthen.
ing within him that the gallant mon of
the South might succeed in delivering
thcmselve, their wives, their children,
and their soil from the intolerabIe yoke
of those who sought their snbjugation'
} But, Sir, their suhiugation is no longer
aimed at. That last proclamation OF
r Mr.. Lincoln, emancipating the slaves
in the insurgent States and exciting
them against the lives and property OF
their masters, was confession to the
world that the subiugation of the
South was abandoned as hopeless -
Sir, tho American President has SOL
T emulyAvoked the judgmentof Europe
upon that proclamation, and we in thla
House are bound not TO evade giving y
RESPONSE to that invocation. Sir, what
! Indictment can we in this Christian
{ assembly pronounce upon it except 10
, denounco it as one of the most atrocl'
ous crimes against tho laws of civil.
: zation and humanity which the world
! has ever seen Sir, to ME it is a
E matter of astonishment how any Eng
|, lishman can contemplate that procla'
NATION but with feelings of sorrow or
indignation. Why, it docs not profess
, to be an act of justice or Philanthropy,
but a stern military necessity "ha1
does a stern military necessity mean
n - , % roaan dom nstic treason,