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The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The English press on the emancipation proclamation. (search)
ustom of acting according to law. There are few, however, even of those who have manifested the greatest disregard for the laws they have sworn to administer, who have not been more or less sensitive of ridicule. A man may brave the passions of an angry mob, but he does not like exposing himself to be laughed at.--Mr. Lincoln seemingly cares as little for the ridicule as he does for the anger of the American people.--He must be well aware that his proclamation will prove a brutum fulmen. Gen. Hunter, not many months since, in a moment of Abolitionist zeal, emancipated all the slaves in South Carolina; but, to the surprise of everybody, the slaves paid no attention to his proclamation, and worked away harder than ever in throwing up those fortifications which insured the subsequent repulse of the Federal forces. Does Mr. Lincoln suppose that they will pay readier obedience to his manifesto? Liberty, we should have supposed, would recommend itself, if at all to a slave, by its intrin