Year: 1862

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a. If they had had some intimation that it was


about to be issued. To assume that they stimuli


taneously assailed it merely from an anticipa-


ton OF its probability would be accordingthem
credit for more sagacity than they have hitherto
exhibited in treating of our affairs.


However the fact may be, the bitterness
which all their articles display in dealing with
the question Of emancipation in any form in
which it is presented proves the utter sefishness
of the motives that animate them Their para
mount desire is to see the separation between
the North and South permanently contaminated
and anything that is likely to interfere with this
is sure to meet with their hearty censure. In
the scheme of gradual emancipation, as present
ed by Mr. Lincoln to the border States, they
fancied they saw the germs Of an accommoda-
ton with the rebels, and they therefore turned
it into ridicule AS a measure borrowed from
English policy in connection with West Indian
slavery, they could not exactly assail it; but
they sought to weaken its effect by carl


caturing it. The last proclamation of the
President, we know in advance, will meet with
their most strenuous hostility. They will de-
nounce, it as they have already denounced any
prospective measure OF this sort, as scheme to
provoke q servile insurrection in the South,
and to renew the horrors Of the Haytien and
ST. Domingo massacres. So frightened are
they lest concession to the fanaticsl views of
the abolitionists should lead to more vigorous
prosecution of the war, as pretended by the
latter. that they will fail to perceive the drift
of the Presidents proclamation, and will assail
it with all the vehemence and rancor of which
they are capable. 1t will be some time before
they appreciate the real point and effect of
"the Pope's bull against the comet" and until
then we must expect to be held up to the world
as monsters of inhumanity and cruelty.


1t is pitiable to reflect that the pecuniary in
terests of Englishmen should so get the better
of their memories and sense of Justice as to
render them oblivious Of the professions and
declarations which they have been accustomed
TO put forth on this question. How often, for
example, have their Exeter Hall orators uttered
the extreme sentiment that it would be better
to shed oceans of blood than that the Gin Of
slavery should be perpetuated. For the last
thirty years they have not only been preaching
and agitating this doctrine, but employing paid
missionaries to bring about the very state
of things against which they are now protesting
in advance. What can more conclusively prove
that their boasted philanthropical sympathies
in favor of the slave population of the South
were oaly put forward as means Of dividing
and distracting our once happy people, and of
finally breaking up the republic? When the
passions and preiudices that are involved in the
present struggle)have subsidized, history will do
justice to the disgusting hypocrisy and profit
gacy that have marked the conduct of the Eng
lish abolitionists in oar regard. The time will
come, perhaps, when the sentiment thus evoked
will take the form Of more positive retribu-
tion.


EXPECTATIONS Nor REALIzED.--Under the
head of Expectations Not Realized" poor
Greeley had miscellaneous sort Of an article
in Yesterdays Tribune, detailing some of the
disappointments of both patriots aud rebels
during this war. He forgot to mention, how
ever, the three greatest expectations which
have not been realized. These are, first,
the expectation Of the appearance of those
nine hundred thousand abolition soldiers who
Greeley promised insfhe Tribune of August 2
should march on to do and die as soon as the
emancipation proclamation was issued; second.
the expectation Of sight of those thousands of
young men who Governor Andrew promised
should swarm along the roads of Massachusetts,
rs soon as that emancipation proclamation was
issued third, the expectation of the advent Of
those armies of men equal to .haming. giants
who Governor Yates, of Illinois, promised
should spring ous Of the ground as soon IS that
emancipation proclamation was issueh That
proclamation has been issued; but where are
the nine hundred thousand abolitionists, the
swarms Of recruits. the armies obtaining giants!
They are not visible even to the eye of faith.
On the contrary, az the fiery radicals who once
shouted onward to Richmond and assailed vic
torious Mcclellan for his tardiness are now, as
the Tribune says. content to whit in settled
calmness fog that happy end tthe abolition Of
slavery which their Judgment assures them is
already begun We must not expect, there>
fore, 10 behold the nine hundred thousand, the
swarms of recruits and the flaming giants OF
abcltionism on the march to Join our armies.
They are all sitting down, content TO wait in
settled calmness.' ard expecting to see the mig
gers go free. This expectation, like that Of
Greeley, that he will escape hanging on a sour
apple tree, will very soon be added to the list
OF those not realized.


The PgocI.AMArIoN. OF CoI.oNI. MORGAN
ABoIlsBNG SLAVERY At Key WEST, FLORIDA
r
New York Volunteers, now commanding the
military post at Key West, Florida, has by our
last news from that point, seen fit to issue A.
proclamation declaring all the Slaves on that
island to be free.


It is difficult TO imagine a more anwarranta-
BILE assumption Of authority than that Of Col.
Morgan IN ra,e Rs,,e Of sssch a document. 1t
heats Fremont and Hunter all hollow md