The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-11-19

Saturday Morning, Nov. 10, 1864.
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The Progress and Prospects Of the Great
Struggle for Freedom in America.
We reprint with pleasure the following ex-
cellent address issued by the Union and
Emancipation Society, of Manchester, an as
sociation which has done and is doing good
work for our cause, and which deserves our
gratitude for its efforts to form and sustain
correct public sentiment in Great Britain and
Ireland: seema
To the People of Great Britain and Ireland:
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN: Untruthful state.
ments aud INSCRIPTIONS efforts are still being
put forth by the enemies OF free government,
free labor, and free education, to deceive and
mislead you as TO the facts and merits of that
IS GREAT STRUGGLE for FREEDO5f, now going
on between the loyal people OF the United
States and the rebellious Shareholders Con-
tederacy. sllMe5 ua8 1
In your name, bat without your authority,
the friends OF the Slavemongers in this coun-
try, united under the banner of Southern In
dependence Associations, have recently ia
sued Peace Manifesto addressed to the Peo
pie of the United States.
In that document tits audaciously asserted.
that PEACE and the restoration of the Union
are apparently more remote than ever" and
on the strength of this and similar baseless
assumptions, You are made to call upon the
Fee and loyal States TO pause and give up
the struggle for freedom THAT is, to recog-
nize and sanction new Slave Empire.
This appeal is made for you in the name OF
Religion, Humanity. Justice, and Civiliza-
tion,' without one word of protest against that
irreiigious, inhuman, iniquitous, aud barbar
ons system of SLAVERY which was the sole
cause OF the unholy WAR, the Southern
Shareholders have forced upon the Federal
Government and the loyal people Of America!
We feel sure that your sanction will never
be given to any proposition, even In the holy
name of PEACE, that seeks to bolster up and
sustain an Infamous SLAVE POWER, whose
only claim TO nationality is based on a system
OF legalized lust and oppression, that outrages
alike the claims of Religion, Humanity, JUS
tice, and Civilization
Remember, that up to Mr.. Lincoln's Eec-
tion, every Congress had dominant party
devoted to the interests Of the Slave Power:
and that this Southern Oligarchy had so
moulded the policy and directed the legisla.
tion fthe nation as to strengthen its political
influence abroad and increase the territorial
area Tor the extension Of Slavery at home.
The first President and Cabinet especially
idenuHed with the advance of Freedom, have
only held office since the All of March, 1851 !;
and the following is record of the progress OF
Liberty during their administration:
l. Emancipation in Western Virginia.
2. Emancipation in Missouri.
8. Emancipation in the District of Columbia.
4. Emancipation in Maryland.
8. Slavery forever prohibited in all the Ter
ritories.
8 Kansas admitted as Free State
Z. Colorado. Nebraska, and Nevada, provis-
ioDally organized as Free States.
S.ldaho, Montana, Dacotah, and Arizona Or
ganiz ed IS Free States. 800 rsaB
g. Haytf and Liberia (coiored people) rec
ognized as Independent Republics.
10. Three millions of slaves declared forever
free by Proclamation of the President, 1st
January, 1868. eHa
IL. All Fugitive Slave Laws utterly abro-
gated. % Ita 178 80
IL. The Inter States Slave Trade abolished.
IL. Negroes admitted to Equal Rights in
the United States Court.
i IA: Equality of the Negro recognized in the
pubic conveyances OF the District of Coum-
bia. 5s3 sssH ia &. s
Is. All rebel States prohibited from return
ing TO the Union with Slavery.
l6. Free labor established on numerous
plantations in South Carolina, louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
II. Free Schools for the Education of Freed
and in Eastern Virginia.
ls. The wives and children of all Slaves en-
ployed as freed men In military and other SER.
vice OF United States, declared free.
lvs Negroes, whether bond or free, enrolled
as part OF the military force of the nation.
20. The loyal people OF Arkansas, Tennessee,
Louisiana, ane Florida, (Rebel States,l seek
ing return to the Union on the basis OF free
dom to all.
2l. An amendment of the Constitution to pro
hiblt slavery every where and forever, passed
In the Senate by two-thirds majority, and only
failed of the requisite two-thirds majority in
the House of Representatives by few votes.
22. The Republican National Convention at
Baltimore, une Sth, 1864, declared unanimous
ly for the reelection of Abraham Lincoln, and
for an Amendment of the Constitution to pro-
hibit Slavery for ever.
2S. The Federal Government forbidden by
Congress to employ any man as Slave 10 any
capacity.
"A One hundred and fifty thousand negroes,
mostly freed Slaves, in the pay and uniform of
the Federal Government, as soldiers of free
dom lighting for the Union.
25. A new international treaty by the FEEDER
{ al Government with this kingdom, for the sup
preston of the Slave Trade.
26. The passing of the Homesteads Bill
whereby the free aud landless may become
freeh0lders on the free soil OF the Terri cries.
The foregoing is only an adequate summary
of the facts that demonstrate the vast prog
ress that has been made in the Abolition Of
Slavery, since Mr.. Lincolns Inauguration in
March, 1851.
The Military progress of the Federal Arms
isequally astonishing, and proves to every
Impartial mind, tnat the Southern cause Is as
hopeless OF ultimate success as 1t is Infamous
~ lLs basis and arrogant in its aims. The fol-
lowing iacts will illustrate the Military stu
alton.
l. AT the commencement of the war, thir-
Teen oCales were claimed by the leaders of
Ieoelhon, and sought to be disrupted from the
Federal Government H--'7, a
2. Nearly half of these Statas bo no aithar da.
clared their loyalty, or have been rescnad from
the Military grasp of the Confederate Armies
8. The Federal power has gained Arm Mil
itary footing, or a Naval base Of Operations in
each OF the rebelious States. 40 - -
4. 1t has securely grasped the great Miss;s.
sippi river, and established powerful blocl-
ade over the few Southern ports still held bv
the rebels.
SO obvious is it that the Southern Confeder-
acy must ultimately succumb TO the just pow
er and irrepressible spirit of the free North,
that no Government has dared TO recognise
the would-be Slave Empire In the South.
Bearing in mind these indisputable facts,
we ask you, the free and lberty.loving people
of the United Kingdom, not to be led away
by crafty appeals, in the name Of peace in fa-
vor of a cause that excludes the possibility of
all peaceful and righteous government, and
that embodies all the crimes and cruelties that
offend heaven and dasolate earth.
The following words of President Lincoln,
In an address on the 18th of August last,
clearly indicate the principle involved In the
present struggle: II wish II might be more