Though
not avowed as an aim, and though secondary to our first great
object,--the reestablishment of the Union and a constitutional
government,--we _all_ know, and so does every Englishman, that the
emancipation of the slave, to a greater or less degree, _must_
inevitably follow our success. Here comes the test of that English
abolition of the blackest and fiercest stamp which has for years been
avowed in Great Britain, and which has done as much as aught else
towards stirring up this foul rebellion. Where be your gibes _now_, O
Britannia? Where be your bitter jeers against the 'lying Constitution,'
against the 'stars for the white man and the stripes for the negro,'
against everything American, because America was the land of the slave?
We are fighting--dying--to directly uphold ourselves, and indirectly to
effect this very emancipation for which you clamored; we are losing
cotton and suffering everything;--but _you_, when it comes to the pinch,
will endure nothing for your boasted abolition, but slide off at once
towards aiding the inception of the foulest, blackest, vilest
slaveocracy ever instituted on earth! Disguise, quibble, lie, let them
that will--these are _facts_.
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