aw,' and its 'paramount'
control, expressly in order that the operation of 'the arbitrary local
laws' may be resumed. Urge up the measures which will put an end to the
state of affairs in which 'the discussion of slavery is as free in New
Orleans as it is in New York.'

_'And in the Border States, where the civil laws still prevail,
hostility to the rebellion has excited such a dissatisfaction with
slavery as its cause, that, by general consent, perfect freedom is
allowed in arguing against the institution.'_ This is true while a
United States force is in the vicinity to overawe traitors--while the
friends of freedom feel confident that they have the strength of a
nation at their back to aid them in resisting the local tyranny; hasten,
therefore, to remove these supports, and leave them to struggle single
handed and hopelessly against an inveterate and hoary despotism, which
knows no law higher than its own will; and which has always been
competent to crush out every rising aspiration toward freedom; until the
accidental advantages of the war encouraged that timid utterance of true
American sentiment in those quarters which is just now beginning feebly
to make itself heard and felt. Hasten, therefore, to withdraw that
support at the instant of time when the local friends of freedom have
just been induced to declare themselves, and so to become the unshielded
victims of slaveholding vindictiveness the instant the provisional
security of the new party derived from abroad ceases to exist. What
would 'the dissatisfaction with slavery' from 'hostility to the
rebellion' have amounted to in Maryland, as a power, against the haughty
and overbearing authority of the slaveholding Despotism, at the
commencement of the war, without the intervention of General Butler; or
that of Missouri, without that of General Fremont? What would that same
dissatisfaction with Slavery amount to at this very day even, in those
States, against the reflex wave of pro-slavery influence and power, if
all influence from the armies and authority of the United States were
completely withdrawn? Or, granting even that in those two Border States,
the most advanced of all, the most under ordinary influences from the
Free States, there is already inaugurated an Anti-slavery Movement which
would retain energy enough to carry on the struggle without foreign
aid--which even is extremely doubtful; the case would stand wholly
otherwise in Mississippi, Alabama, Loui