The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864: Devoted to Literature and National PolicyVarious
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864: Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Periodicals
It is not our purpose to insist on the technical process of
_territorializing_ the conquered rebel States. What we do insist on is
that the military authority, which the nation has so laboriously
asserted and acquired over them, shall not be withdrawn until the
natural and necessary and appropriate consequences of the war shall have
been attained; and that among these is the inauguration of Freedom
instead of the reinstitution of that hideous anomaly of the nations,
American Slavery. We insist that the rising, but as yet the feeble and
timid Freedom Party of the South, including the blacks and a growing
number of the poor whites, so fast as they become rightly informed, with
a small number of enlightened, generous, and noble-minded men of the
planter class, who sympathize with freedom, and are truly loyal in
sympathy and soul to American principles and the American Government, be
regarded and treated as the new and loyal South; and not a trumped-up
party, which may arise any day, of as bitter traitors as ever lived, but
who, seeing the hopelessness of their cause, which is, at bottom,
Slavery, and nothing else, under the present issue of war, shall give in
a hollow and pretended profession of loyalty, in order to secure, by
other means, the same end. Does this truly loyal party at the South
anywhere as yet wish the withdrawal of the protection of the General
Government, and desire to be turned over to the tender mercies of their
false and subtle enemy--which are unheard-of cruelties? Let the
representation of the thousand loyal men from Middle Tennessee, recently
made to the President of the United States, answer. On the contrary,
there is nothing which those men so greatly dread--nothing which so
checks their more rapid development as a party--as the fear that they
may be so abandoned before their work is sufficiently advanced to secure
its completion.
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