THE WAR IN AMERICA.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 22, 28 December 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

The following is from ihe New York correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald : — "Enough has not been yet done for humanity in this strife — if the proclamation of freedom in ihose States which were still in rebellion up to Ist January, 1863, does not yet possess enough to fulfil the designs of Providence, the war may be extended till the complete accomplishment ofi His purposes. It is certain that the good work thus far performed will not soon be undone. The President, in answer to an invifiation from a Union Convention now sitting at Cyracuse. in this State, and which will adjourn to meet again at Springfield, Illinois, the home of the President, to take action for inaugurating the next presidential campaign, reviews the proclamation, and assures the Convention that it shall be carried out lo the letter, and the great heart of the people beats responsively to that assurance. Slavery is for ever annihilated on this continent. What will be thought of those quasi-philanthropic" nations of Europe who would not give credit to this Government for sincerity when it proclaimed freedom to those : nations who, instead of extending en- i couragemenb or sympathy to it in this .'. terrible struggle oi freedom against human ' slavery, had nothing for it but revilings '

and sneers, unjust jand malevolent criticisms ; those nations"^ that, under pretence of neutrality^* tuwntfced in so far as they could the action of the Government, while they furnished its rebellious citizens — contending for the perpetuation of slavery, and the overthrow of freedom — "with all the means ,and appliances to carry out their wicked and inhuman purposes. The next great step to the entire abolition of slavery, if it was needful, has come from; Jeff. Davis himself, who calls for black soldiers on promise of freedom as iheir reward. But as Mr Lincoln's proclamation frees already all the slaves in the rebel States, Jeff's last need to which he trusted will fail him, and now, before Napoleon has time to decide, or rather to take any decisive steps more hostile to this country than be has already taken, the Confederacy will be no more, or so utterly brought low, that all the powers of earth arrayed upon its behalf could not avail it. There is no more hope even from Copperheadism. The draft has been carried out peaceably all over the Free States, even in the City of New York, and the power and dignity of the Government vindicated. Let all raoakera and false prophesiers of evil to republican institutions for ever hold their peace, for not the most ancient, the most stable, the most despotic, or the most constitutional GoI vernment in Europe could, present under t such adverse, crilical and threatening circumstances and events, a more law abiding and loyal a people than the citizens of the great American Republic."