The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-04
ENGLISH SYMPATHY AGAINST
TIE EMANCIPATION PROC

RAI
THE EN- ANCEPATTON PTSGC.
LANIATION.
IHrKautd- caHthe special attention of the
resdero the subjoined extract taken from the
London Times of January 3l.t. II gives an
snsife7new phase to English opinion upon Mr..
LIreoLN's Emancipation Proclamation, to
1thss which has been SO persistentiy foisted
upon tho people of the Northern States
through Abolition papers, orators and bogus
dispatches. We give it without comment.
s4sneeds none.-ED. UN1oN.1
No failure of the Federal politicians has
been more complete than that which has at
cd their efforts to bring English sympathy
to their side in a war of ambition, by appeal;
ing to the hatred of negro slavery which ami.
mates all classes in this country. A more
striking condemnation of the recklessness and
cruelty which have marked the conduct of the
Republican party could not be given than the
etsrn silence. With which all that is intellectual,
and cultivated, and humane in English society
hasdreeeiyed the pretentions of Mr.. Lincoln to
be the friend Of the oppressed and the cham
pion of civilization. His famous Proclama-
tion has been the subject of discussion among
us ever since it vas threatened in Sc 5ember
last. Three weeks have elapsed since we have
khognthatftH hE really issued. The English
peopls, WhoAave been of late ~singularly at a
loss for topics of home interest, have thought
it over and talked it over, and read all that a
prolific press can cay upon it, and the result is
Shat they are confirmed in their first opinions,
ard refuseto be drawn by philanthropio pre-
fences into sanctioning a measure of desperate
and vindictive warfare. IF the Federals have
hadeany hopes of conquering European sym
patty by hosting the flag of seryile war, such
hopes must be blighted when they appreciate
the temperiin which this act has been received
by the English people. We have waited that
We might speak with certainty, and passing
events give US the power of doing so. 1t Is
well known that within tie last few weeks
graatsefoFts have been made IN this country
to obtain demonstrations in favor of the Fed
eralseause. It is said, probably with truth,
that agents of the Northern Government, pro-
vided with funds from America, have been at
work on the familiar business of agitation, in
order to restore their discredited party at home
by making it appear that English opinion sup
ports them In their acts. But, wherever the
agitators come from, they have been especially
busy fertile last two months. It has been
promised that the real sentiments of English
men should at last be made known. If meet
- could be organized, if the subject could
he -operly discussed, aad public opinion set
: fls n argpress which misrepresented it,
sca might see that the feelings and
nen Anel11eFd Of the old country were with
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q ner no. q result of the great novel
! .ns nsgIo. Ais journal yesterday. For
o.s ga5 gwen iAh ounced that there was
ssAs \ nas Deem ann v~stration" in London in
% SEonssel esn9n. -iDcial meetings had /
.sor q. ne GoI!n.l 5fon I been most prof.
s1retoy leia, ana ne& whose opinion
skingiy avoided by any ops But in Lon
a. Of siightest importance. This isl
~ better luck might be hoped I. h4aef1JanzI
So. Z, et,o5:eI:s and on the 29t .,I;amsnt
~ sIeek before the meeting of Pa 10 emit
y, - eli a persons of consideral mo.t
-. 80 If ali shades of opinion. The 80
istinap;shed names of d country where l.! 2
On al thought is carried INTO eco9nsi aSs !
ere sure to be within reach o. ths .aments =
ltion Boeietys circulars and adv $3.50 =
doubt, then, that an imposing "es.is' q
tsndsd lbv men of genius, of high IRAN n
ents, sfrereat social position, OF political "
own, would bear witness to the Interest," Z
hich large and influential sections OF English M
,cietv follow the progress of Mr.. L1ncolns ~
oIicv IF even what is called the world
,e frivolous nnthinking people who take tncl
pinions from the press, who dislike fankees "
their ~pertnsss and Boosting, ana admire ay
and jackson for their unexanpisu Ioro, is
Im-if even jealous politicians or i.hpeTai WI
,ldiers stood apart, surely there would pc wi
of the more original thinkers to fill q Z;
lafform More than this, in the centre of 81.
his great capital, with Its hundreds of church I'll
inthe neighborhoed of men who have spent ali
aeir lives in advocating every charitable cause, a,
might.haye been thought that a meeting a,
rofcssedly in favor of negro emancipation
ould not have wanted names of eminence--
fter weeks of preparation the meeting took
ace the day before yesterdat- The speakers M
ere q minor Novelist and two or three Dis
ministers, who scenic be of the usual m,
calibrs. Not one man, whose opin-i fal
n the country would listen to on any pollti- we
i subject,-not one statesman, not one per- ne
N endowed with genius, however selfWllled les
ID erratic no representative of the Peerage, H
lly one of the>House of Commons, not one its
the Church, of the gentry, or the CONNER
al worldAEas found to stand on that plat
rm and make himself responsible for Mr.. "a
incolns Proclamation. OF the eminent men =
no in past years have struggled, and viii still a.
ruggle ON for years to come, against oppress-
n and evil doing all over the world-of the q
,ilanthropists whose names are i'd snti6ed with ha
is very phase of Negro Emancipation,0s h
lere was not one who felt that he could In 10y
,n~science come forward and encourage q gu
lthless invasion, and . still moro hateful alb
heme of domestic warfare, by giving aid tn
ID comfozE to Dir. Lincoln's lettering Cabi- en-
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