he Emancipation Proclamation, as to earn the contempt
of all honest and honorable men, and the loss of sympathy of the
industrial classes and working men of Europe, whose rulers would then no
longer fear to recognize or aid the South. It was the magnificent
uprising of the working classes of England in favor of the Union, that
alone saved both countries from a bloody and disastrous war.

The Emancipation Proclamation being, as we have seen, clearly
constitutional, as a war measure, with a view to save the Union, was
it, as such, wise and expedient? We have seen that the rebel South, even
by conscription, when necessary, used slaves for military purposes, and
those not used directly in that way are required to raise breadstuff's
and provisions (instead of cotton), to supply the Confederate army.
Indeed the debates of Congress for many years past, will show that the
South boasted, not vainly, of their great military strength, because
they declared that, while the slaves would be used in raising provisions
to supply their forces, the whole white population capable of bearing
arms could then be called into the field. This constituted, as they
declared, their _great military strength_. And is it not then a most
important war measure, to deprive them of that all-powerful and
efficient weapon: which, we have seen, can only be done by emancipation?
Now, let us suppose that while we refuse the use of the colored race,
whether bond or free, in aid of the war, they are used for that purpose
by the South, what would be the result? By the census of 1860, the whole
population of the United States was 31,445,080, of which there were
white, 26,975,575; free colored, 487,996; slaves, 3,953,760; total, of
colored, 4,441,756, of which there were in the seceded States 3,653,110,
and in the loyal States, 788,446. Add the whites in the seceded States,
5,449,463, would thus make the whole population of those States, by the
census of 1860, 9,102,573. In the loyal States, the whole population was
22,342,507; of which 21,553,861 were white, and 788,646 colored. Now
then, if the colored race, as we have seen, in the seceding States, are
used for war purposes by them and not by us, the relative number of
opposing forces would be as follows: Loyal States, 21,553,861; seceded
States, 9,102,573; difference in favor of the Loyal States, 12,451,288.
Now, to begin the process, add to the whites in the Loyal States the
free colored, and the total number i