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EMANCIPATION OF THE AMERICAN SLAVES.The ultra-Liberal party all over Europe seem to have made a blind compact among themselves-to regard the American contest as simply a war on the one hand for the suppression of slavery and on the other for the right of holding slaves. Garibaldi even has been persuaded that this is the case, and it is said that he still talks of placing his sword, as soon as he has recovered, at the service of the Northern States. Whatever , the origin of the quarrel may have been—and the election of a President to whom abolitionist principles were imputed had certainly a great deal to do with it—it must be plain enough now to every one who chooses to read the American news that the continuance of slavery is not the question at issue at all. Does any one imagine that, if the Southerners were suddenly to liberate their slaves, the North would make peace with them on that account, or that, if they acknowledged the supremacy of the Northern Government, the President would thereupon proceed to devise some general measure of emancipation ? On the contrary, the North would sacrifice all the black men that Were ever flogged could it by so doing hope to bring back the South to its allegiance, while the South would never reunite with the North, even if it were offered the most solemn and binding guarantee that the institution of slavery should be rendered perpetual, and that the American Government would not only maintain but extend it.If the North has always been so anxious to abolish slavery throughout the United States, why did no member of Congress
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Illustrated Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 11, 1862
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