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with him, though we have not yet heard that the President’s strong invitation to exile has been interpreted into an absolute edict of transportation. We can infer, however, from the mere fact of such a document having been issued and accepted as the proper sort of thingtopublish, what disposition there wouldhave been in the North, either now or before the war broke out, to pay an immense sum of money in order to secure to the hated negro the blessings of freedom. The only liberty the Northerners as a body would give him is liberty to leave the country.It is quite possible that, since North and South have come to blows, a new class of Abolitionists may have arisen. We mean that mass of persons who cared nothing for the welfare of the negro before the strife began, and who now only look upon his emancipation as a means of wounding and enfeebling the Southern enemy. Let us say that there were some Abolitionists, as doubtless there were, who would gladly have emancipated the slaves at almost any sacrifice. Then there were others who Would not have minded setting them free if it could have been done cheap and without ruining any one but the proprietors. There were others, again, who thought the slaves had better remain as they were, and a good many more who were positively opposed to their liberation. Since the North and South have been at open warfare, and in proportion as the chances of a reconciliation have diminished, the Government has been considering, not what measures would be best for the good of North and South together, but what measures would be most
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Illustrated Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 11, 1862
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