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ever introduce a formal proposition to that effect, instead of leaving the matter to be legislated for by each State separately ? We are, of course, aware that there has for many years been a strong sincere feeling among certain classes in the North in favour of emancipation. Nearly all the writers of books have been on that side, and, with becoming literary ardour, have advocated a measure which they felt to be just, without troubling themselves about the mode of carrying it out. The Northern politicians, on the other hand, have never made any serious endeavours to deal with the slavery question, of which the difficulties were only too apparent. Nor, judging from the hatred and contempt which the population of the North in general show for the unfortunate blacks, can we believe that a proposition to emancipate them In an honest manner, by offering a fair compensation to the proprietors, would ever have been popular there, or that it would even have been tolerated. At all events, no such project was ever agitated, and we feel sure that no scheme for liberating the negro by means of a general and very considerable tax would have been entertained. The great majority of the people in thp North, especially the hordes of German and Irish immigrants, and the mob in general, care nothing what becomes of the black man as long as he keeps out of the same room and out of the same railway-carriage that they may happen to be sitting in. It is now a matter of European notoriety that some of the Northern legislators would banish the negro altogether on the simple ground that the white people don’t like him and can’t live
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Illustrated Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 11, 1862
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