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AMERICA. 89
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I On The The Morality Revolution Of In T...
les If s we s peedil ard secession the cons as t itu reb tion ellion framed to be w p hils ut t dow n , more Union or
y , and subsis that ted constitution is still binding both - upon sanctioned the party and trying tected to restore slavery it . ,
Constitutionally slavery might be prevented pro from advancing , but could not be forced to retreatto restrict its appropriation
of fresh ground isit is trueto secure ; its ultimate destruction : but when the slave , states , are as large and fertile as in the
p resent for instance thing , that the destruction constitution may provides be indefini for the tely contrary remote ,
attended , with any all the horrors whose contemplation has disturbed , John Bull ' s euanimitIfon the other handwe consider
that two independen q t republic y . , s , styled respectively , Federal and Confederateare d in a struggle to determine how far
south the bo , undar engage y line between them shall be drawn , it is evident that one of these republics would not be sanctioned b
modern domestic usag insti e t , utions in insis however ting upon immoral the of reformation the other : of such the y a
preceden course would tfor if unwi the , s assertion e in itself of , and a moral still , more princi dangerous le were once as a
admitted ; as affording a casus belliEurope would p hardly be at again this centuryTo expect , the North or other
peace power to go to war to abolish . slavery , is simply chimerical any : what is desirablepossibleand we venture to hopeprobable
sla is t v es m as ay an escap acciden e , from t , no bondage t a , conse i q uence the S out t he , to w find ar , m , the illions North of ,
less resolved to exclude them from the enjoyment of every thing roclam tha ation t renders was im liber ossible ty w val hils uable t the . U The nion emanci was in pation
p degree a reality , neither p could it rightly have taken the place any a of a erf declaration ectlfair war of hostilit measure y ; bu robabl t given a w in ise a s one tate cer of t w ainl ar , it one is
fraug p ht w y ith the promise , p immense y benefit , to the y poor fire continues contrabands inhuman to . anathematize The until sentimental it was the promoters proved _partisanshi unsuccessfu of p that a war thoug of l , races o h f t course Greek but .
the Ci Morality arguments of the used htfulness Eman in Mr cipation . of Goldwin that Proclamation Smith's " letter Miss are a on s ; _^ _ex , _yjip l - ;
clusive to the rigmeasure , as < Cbbbe _' sV the statements L . L . Emancipation ( " Bed Flag Society in John are to Bull its ' innocence Eyes . " _^ _qftfa aUihe _. ' pg . '
tearful Closel results connected expected with from the it . policy of the { _Eman l ii ; j _| , _Gji paiji . . . .. j , ft , _i
It Proclam does not ation y at is firs that t si of ht the seem enlistment human of e _ij t _^ _grp ' . _/^ e 5 g _. ' / _^ _. ni Ja _^ njfcs _^ _pny _, _^
from convert his him plantation into food g with for powder promises very subject of jfre ,, ' _ewni , p _> afcp _? _^ . a , _^ a | _^ d , _tfy _^ ' _y ia j
, _^ VOL . XIII . G
America. 89
AMERICA . 89
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/17/
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