Franklin Repository
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Rebel Accounts Of Chattanooga
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Slavery In The Cotton States
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The Baltimore American, the ablest journal in Maryland, and one that is not obnoxious to the charge of radicalism, thus earnestly and cogently demands that the destruction of Slavery shall be thorough in the Cotton States as it is confessedly in the Border States. After noticing the fact that the Cotton States had precipitated the Nation into fraternal war; destroyed Slavery on the border and gathered the slaves into the Gulf States, it says:
"And now, in view of al this--in view of the wholesale, murderous swindle which the Cotton States have perpetrated in getting their quotas of negroes--the border States beg leave to protect against any peace or cessation of the fight in any shape which leaves the Cotton States to the quiet possession of their ill-gotten spoils. Peace, now, is just what they want. With millions of acres of wild and fertile lands at their command, and this additional force of cheap negroes there, with the poor whites killed off out of the way, and cotton at a high price, they would, indeed, revel in wealth; they would crowd into the most guilty of the Revolutionary States every element of prosperity, such as they never knew in the past. And so it would result that to 'rescue a remnant of Southern slavery' would be the very crowning good fortune over which they would exult, since, although they failed of achieving their so-called 'independence,' they would have accomplished the next most desirable thing--have gotten plenty of negro labor at cheap rates, without re-opening the African Slave Trade, and broken down all competition elsewhere.
"Now, we say, make no terms with the Rebellion whatever, except on the naked basis of submission; and let the 'fearful' consequences deprecated fall on those obstinate enough, or stupid enough, to invoke these 'consequences.' Let us have no 'remnant of Slavery' left, even if the conflict continues as much longer as it has already done. And if the President were to cease to direct his blows against the guilty Cotton States, for fear of distressing the enemy, he would hazard, and more, lose, the labor already undergone, and compromise the cause of the Republic and his own fame forever.
"Meanwhile, we reiterate the hope and trust that the war may be pushed to the uttermost; and, in urging this, we put in no reserve plea to deal tenderly with the Cotton States. They are the guilty ones, and if the infliction of war, which they invoked and caused, is now coming home to them, all the better, since they proposed, long ago, to make our own and other innocent communities bear the brunt of the conflict. Let the National troops drive these guilty communities, these original revolutionists, into a corner, and, once within control, let such men as Ex-General Toombs have their spoils wrenched from them; let Governor Brown be made to re-consider his former words, 'Go on with your cotton planting, for the war will never reach you!' Let them be made to fell that 'peace,' with Slavery undisturbed there, is no longer practicable; that, as they have broken up Slavery for us, they themselves shall never be permitted in quiet to thrive upon our misfortunes, as now they would gladly do.
"But, finally, there is no danger of this. The latest intimations from Washington as to the policy to be observed are conclusive on this point. The President and his advisers will stand firm; and, doing so, the days of Slavery are numbered everywhere. Could Toombs and his fellow-conspirators stop matters just where they are, conceding thus to the far Cotton States the palpable advantages they have gained, could Slavery there remain, we have not a doubt but that they would consider the war, so far, a good speculation in better fitting the Gulf States for the homes of a would-be 'aristocracy.' The 'poor whites' are--the bulk of them--dead. They no longer 'cumber the ground.' The tragedy the leaders set on foot is a frightful one, and it is still for themselves to say whether it shall be played to the end. And no simpler proposition could be made to relieve them at once than the one already advanced---the one steadily insisted upon by the Government--'Let them lay down their arms."
The Pulpit And The War
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Brief War Items
Political Intelligence
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Opinion of Judge Stong
The Prayer At Gettysburg
A Spanish Congratulation
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The Army Of The Potomac
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Gen. Banks In Texas
The Duty Of The Governor
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A clerical correspondent writes us from the Southern coast protesting against the rapid tendency to amalgamation. He says that he has been called upon to perform the marriage service repeatedly where the bride was mulatto, quadroon or octoroon, and he calls upon Congress to arrest this unnatural mingling of the races, which, to use his own language, "threatens the annihilation of the white race in the United States."
We beg our correspondent to quiet his fears on the subject. He cites some half a dozen cases to vindicate his apprehensions; but not one of them presents the union of a northern man with the southern negress. All the happy grooms were either southerners or foreigners, and they have been adopting no novel social system. Slavery has never fastened its desolation on any land without carrying the social evil of amalgamation with it; and the crime has been peculiar to the chivalric and opulent rather than to the lowly. Had our correspondent cast a thought as to the origin of the mulatto, quadroon and octoroon brides of whom he speaks, he might have cherished a reasonable suspicion that amalgamation is not just dawning upon the world, but has blotted and blurred the whole social organization of the South ever since slavery came with its endless train of crime.
In the North, where the negro race is free and not the legitimate prey of a brutal master's lust, amalgamation is very rare, and embraces only the most abandoned of both sexes; and we regard the destruction of Slavery as the only hope of dealing a death-blow to that unnatural evil. Slavery has been its parent, its shield, its apologist and stripped it of its hideous moral deformity by bringing virtuous wives and daughters and sensual sons in daily contact with it; and when its great foundation is destroyed, the whole structure of social pollution will fall with it. The remedy is not in Congress, but in the moral tone of the people, and that seems to be progressing well toward a better and brighter Nationality, free from the blistering stains of both legalized and lawless mingling of the distance races of the Continent.
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The Army Of The Potomac--Rumored Appointment of Gen. Pleasanton to the Command in Place of Gen. Meade
Longstreet Retreating from Knoxville--Foster and Sherman Pursuing
President's Proclamation
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"The Baltimore American . . . demands that the destruction of Slavery shall be thorough in the Cotton States as it is confessedly in the Border States."