606 The Fall of the Confederacy. 
included in the programme of the North, and so long as 
the Confederacy adhered to a policy of non-emancipation, 
the Abolitionists, who before the war preferred to let the 
South go rather than have negro slavery in the Union, 
would have prevented peace on the basis of the dissolution 
of the Union, because the war for the Union had become 
a war for negro emancipation. Yes, this question of 
emancipation, which the Federal and Confederate ad- 
ministrations and Europe deemed of secondary import- 
ance, was all-important. Because the Confederate ad- 
ministration would not give up negro slavery it lost the 
aid of 300,000 soldiers; and because the Federal adminis- 
tration adopted the policy of emancipation it kept the 
West loyal to the East—loyal, we mean, not only as part 
of the Union, but in the sense of being zealous and 
unanimous in the prosecution of hostilities against the 
Confederacy. | . 
We have said that the Confederate administration relied 
mainly for success on foreign intervention. We desire to 
offer no opinion as to whether recognition—which is an- 
other name for intervention—would have followed from 
negro emancipation, or even whether foreign intervention 
would have secured the triumph of the Confederacy. But 
no one will deny that negro slavery stood in the way of re- 
cognition ; and when we remember what an influential pro- 
Southern party there was both in England and France, 
and how the friends of the North met every argument put 
forth on behalf of the South by reminding us that the 
Confederacy upheld the institution of negro slavery, there 
is some sense in supposing that if the South had adopted 
the policy of emancipation the hope of foreign inter- 
vention would not have proved fallacious. Yes, at every 
turn this negro slavery question meets us. The more we 
reflect the more thoroughly we are convinced that the war 
of Empire and of Independence was really a war of eman- 
cipation. The Confederacy adhered to negro slavery and 
failed; it might have won if the negroes had been eman- - 
cipated. The North adopted the policy of emancipation, 
and won; and despite her numerical resources might have 
been beaten but for the policy of emancipation. After 
close investigation and mature reflection we are persuaded 
that the North would not have been so soon if ever trium- 
phant without conjoining the cause of emancipation to the 
cause of the Union. Perhaps this may be debateable 
ground, but it is, we submit, manifest that the Confederacy | 
