siana, or Arkansas, where no
well-constituted Party of Freedom has as yet achieved any successes, and
where the slaveholding interest and desperation are ten times stronger
than they are in the Border States.

'_'We say, then,_ says the _Times_ writer, '_that even if the National
Government had the right to institute new civil measures against
slavery, it would not be necessary. The unavoidable military operations
of the war, and the free discussion which is sure to attend it, are
enough of themselves to break down the institution. The Government has
simply to stand quiet and let those influences work._'

All this, urged for the purposes for which it is here urged, is simply
crying, Peace! peace! when there is no peace. If these influences, the
presence of the war power and free discussion, be to continue, very
good. Then, indeed, is there a chance, amounting almost to a certainty,
that Slavery will have to succumb, and all of these considerations,
urged as a reason why the war power should be retained for an adequate
period over the Slave States, even after their nominal submission, and
free discussion encouraged and protected by that power--which we
understand to be the policy recommended by General Butler--are
consequent, logical, and patriotic; but put forth as reasons why we
should hasten to surrender the influence over the destiny of man which
has been so providentially, and yet with such immense sacrifice, placed
in our hands, they are practically hostile to the vital purposes of the
war, however honest and simple minded may be the individuals who
recommend them.

Again: _'Territorialize them because you hate slavery, and the
inevitable result will be that you will only make them love slavery the
more,'_ etc.

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asserted and acquired over them, shall not be withdrawn until the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 enlighten