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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Mr. Buxton Scared. (search)
ction infinitely more sanguinary than any which can possibly occur as the remote result of the Proclamation will be multiplied, when the moral power and the physical force of the Union shall no longer deter the Black from making a decided though desperate stand for his freedom. We deprecate as much as any timid Englishman an insurrection of the slaves. But while with Fowell Buxton we contemplate the untold misery which such an event would occasion, we cannot banish from our thoughts the untold misery to which an inoffensive race has been subjected by the cupidity of man. A general massacre of all the whites in the Slaveholding States, would hardly present so terrible an aggregate of suffering as that which the American slaves are expected to encounter with Christian patience, and in a moment to forgive and forget. God preserve us from a lawless insurrection! God preserve us from crimes and breaches of good faith which will make such an insurrection inevitable! March 18, 1863.