et these agencies work_.'

The italics are our own, inserted for the sake of more easy reference.
Not only is it unnecessary, according to this writer, to take any active
and positive steps against Slavery at the South, but so soon as the
rebel States wish to return within the Union, with all their old
privileges and with Slavery surviving, they should be permitted to do
so, and should be received with open arms. The Proclamation of
Emancipation itself is thus quietly wiped out, and a policy sketched
which, in the event of mere military defeat on their part, would, in the
next place, be the most acceptable of all possible policies;--not to the
loyal black men who are now struggling, fighting, and dying alongside of
us, in the ranks; not to the small and feeble but growing anti-slavery
party, which, in the presence of, and under the protection of our armies
of the North, is just springing up and consolidating itself in the
South;--but to Jefferson Davis himself, and to all the devoted and
fanatical adherents of the slaveholding system in the South, and their
'Copperhead' friends in the North. The _Times_ article concludes as
follows:

'But we go farther, and say, that any other interference would not
only be superfluous, but positively mischievous. To insure that
slavery, when it dies, shall never rise again, you have got to
depend largely upon the disposition of the Southern people. That
disposition should not be needlessly embittered. It can't help
becoming so if, as some propose, their States are reduced to the
condition of mere territorial dependencies. Americans can never be
satisfied to be underlings. Whatever the fortunes of war
legitimately bring, they are sensible enough to submit to; but it
is not in their spirit to consent to any permanent degradation.
Undertake to deprive them permanently of their civil rights, and
you simply make them your permanent enemies. _Territorialize them
because you hate slavery, and the inevitable effect will be that
you will only make them love slavery the more, and hate you the
more. This could not always continue. State rights, sooner or
later, would have to be restored. We don't believe that three years
would elapse after the close of the war before the keeping those
States in a territorial condition would be abandoned as an
insufferable anomaly in our system of government. State righ