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Foreign Views |
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| " There
is still confusion about the cardinal point of the relation of Slavery
to the War. Lord Palmerston's organ, the London Post, says:
If the theory of the Government is to be observed, Slavery has nothing
whatever to do with the question. Of course that statement is
meant to mean that emancipation is not the object of the war, which is strictly
true."
From an article entitled THE WAR AND EMANCIPATION found on page 659 of the October 19, 1861 edition of Harper's Weekly |
| The contest is
really for empire on the side of the North and for independence on that
of the South...
London Times 7 November 1861 |
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| English
editorialists, writing during the war, also saw through the Norths
hypocrisy- They [the Northern
white men] do not love the Negro as a fellow-man; they pity him as a
victim of wrong. They will plead his cause; they will not tolerate his
company.
Slavery,
Secession, and Civil War, Views from the |
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Or
perhaps you prefer the report of Charles Dickens, who in 1862, reported
on the observations of a French journalist. From private to general, They took high ground, which
appeared to them above all discussion or controversy. They have vowed to
the North a mortal hatred, they will wage against it an implacable war,
because the North has made an armed invasion of their territories, their
native land; because they are driven to defend against it their homes,
their honour, and their liberty. From the general in chief to the lowest
soldier, everybody held the same language with wonderful unanimity.
When in the Course of Human Events, by Charles Adams, page 12 |
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"The
flags of the Confederate States of Winston Churchill |