October 25, 1862---"There are no two nations of Europe which have ever hated each other with more intense and implacable hate . . ."

OCTOBER 25, 1862:           

 The Richmond Daily Dispatch prints an enraged editorial that asserts that with the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union can never be restored. The Editors ignore the fact that the war has split families, friendships, and old loyalties. They speak only of hate. It reads in part: 

Nevertheless, the best policy, simply as policy, to say nothing of right and justice, which the Lincoln Government could have pursued . . . would have been to permit the South to depart in peace . . . The South is never to be re-united to the old Union . . . With the whole framework of Southern society overthrown, the proprietors and directors of the labor dead or exiled, and the laborers themselves turned loose, what practical gain will ensure to the North? . . . There are no two nations of Europe which have ever hated each other with more intense and implacable hate than North and South. There are no two nations in Europe more dissimilar, politically, socially, in almost every other respect that can be named. The two races, apart from their present hostility, do not think alike, do not look alike, do not even talk alike, and have nothing alike but their mutual hate. It is useless to attempt the union of such opposing elements. Better let them part in peace.