The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Rev. Albert Barnes against Lincoln.

--Rev. Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia, whom we supposed was the most determined of Abolitionists, opposes Mr. Lincoln's proclamation in all its aspects. He has recently published a sermon. "The Conditions of Peaces," in which he expresses the view that the "control of slavery, and all the laws regulating it, ought to be left to the States as such, in all respects, absolutely and exclusively" Mr. Barnes suggests that "New York city might not yet have traveled for beyond Canal street" if it had not been for cotton, and "if the South had not been willing that, on certain well known terms, their money affairs should be in the hands of the merchants and brokers of New York"Upon another point Mr. Parson says a word, as follows: "In all my life I have defended freedom of speech, and fought many a battle for it. I have felt no restraint on that subject I feel none now. I believe that when freedom of speech shall be taken away the last hope of the nation the last remnant of liberty, will be gone."