rnment will cheerfully act on it so soon as the fortunes of war or
the united voice of the people strengthen it in the good work. And until
it _is_ done, let every intelligent freeman bear it in mind, thinking
intelligently and acting earnestly, so that the great work may be
advanced rapidly and carried out profitably and triumphantly.

The leading minds of the South, shrewder than our Northern
anti-emancipation half traitors and whole dough-faces, foreseeing the
inevitable success of ultimate emancipation, have given many signs of
willingness to employ even it, if needs must be, as a means of
effectually achieving their 'independence.' They have baited their hooks
with it to fish for European aid--they have threatened it armed, as a
last resort of desperation, if conquered by the North. Knowing as well
as we that the days of slavery are numbered, they have used it as a
pretense for separation, they would just as willingly destroy it to
maintain that separation. Since the war began, projects of home
manufactures, and other schemes involving the encouragement of free
labor, have been largely discussed in the South,--and yet in spite of
this, thousands among us violently oppose Emancipation. In plain,
truthful words they uphold the ostensible platform of the enemy, and yet
avow themselves friends of the Union.

We have said it before, we repeat it: we ask for no undue haste, no
unwise measures, nothing calculated to irritate or disorganize or impede
the measures which government may now have in hand. But we hold firmly
that Emancipation be calmly regarded as a measure which _must_ at some
time be fully carried out. Be it limited for the time, or for years, to
the Border States, be it assumed partially or entirely under the
modified form of apprenticeship, be it proclaimed only in Texas or South
Carolina, it has in some way a claim to recognition, and _must_ be
recognized. Its friends are too many to be ignored in the day of
settlement.

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It is proper that every detail of contract corruption should be brought
fully to light, and the country owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. DAWES
for his manly attack on the wretches who have crippled the war, robbed
the soldier, swindled the tax-payers, and aided the enemy by their
wicked rapacity. Let it be remembered that whatever his sentiments may
have been, every man who has been instrumental, directly or indirectly,
in cheating the treasury