New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-02
GEN. PREmoNT,s PROCLAMATION.

GEN. FREMONT's PROCLAMATION.
Mai Gen. Fremont is in command Of the Military
District including the States of Missouri, Illinois,
Arkansas, &c, &c. In that district there are to.
day over Ono Hundred Thousand Rebels under
arms, while thousands more are being rapidly
drafted or pressed into the service of treason. The
Union forces in that district are decidedly outnm-
bered, but they are better armed and equipped than
the Rebels, receive pay, and are not required to
steal their own living. Their ranks, moreover, are
being rapidly filed by fresh volunteers; bat
whether more rapidly than those of the Confederates
or otherwise, we are unable to say.
The State of Missouri has never pretended to
secede from the Union. Or tie contrary, though
her Governor C. Fox Jaekson) and Lieutenant.
Governor (ThCmas C.. ReynOlds) are active and
malignant traitors, her Convention, called to take
her cut of the Union has decided that she shall not
90 cut and has designated Hamilton r. Gamble for
her Provisional Governor, vice c. i. Jackson, who
had forfeited his place by conspicuous treason and
| flight.
Some sixty or seventy thousand rebels are now
in arms in Missouri CT whom perhaps half are
Missouriass. Suddenly appearing in great force
from Arkansas heavily reinforced from Ten
nessee and other States, they base driven the
Unionsts before them, aud are to-day ram
pant in fully half the State. Having
no resource but in marauding, they are
ST course stripping tho Unionists Of horses
FOR their artillery baggage and numerous
cavalry; of cattle, grain, &c, for their subsist-
ence, and Of cloth, clothing, shoes, &C., to cover
their nakednesg Not that UniOnists alone suffer
by their ravagec, but these are considered fair
game. while the dwellings and farms of citizens
of Secession procliyitics are stripped less ruth
les,y if not with some show of conjunction.
But this is not all. In that (Northern) portion
of the State, of which the Union forces have
military possession, the Rebels have not the least
hesitation as 10 committing all manner OF cow
ardly outrages. They he in ambush for tho pas
sage Of railroad trains, and fire into one when
ever they suppose there is g chance Of thus kill.
ing Unionsts Having fired, they sink away
under cover to their homes, where they OF course
deny 20 all bat Confederate traitors that they
ever raised hand against the Government and
its defenders. Whenever they can attack Union
ists in overwhelming force, they muster all hands
and fall on, though il be hundred mules within
our lines; and the next hour they Dcatter, dis
arm. and deny all knowledge of the crime. Such
is the mode of warfare which is rapidly driving
out the loyal population Of the State to GEEK
reflpe in Illinois, Iowa, or Kansas, leaving their
farms, dwellings, and crops TO the mercy OF those
who live by plumber, and who consider all that
belongs to Unionists their rghtful spoil. Need
We add that all destructibe property is rapidly
disappearing and. that few months more of this
warfare must reduce three-fourths. Of the State
20 the condition. of q bowling wastsi
Gen. Fremont has determined hat this state
Of things shall cease, if it be in his power TO
change it. To this end, he gives notice that
rebels who take up arms within tho lines OF the
Union forcos-that is, north and east of a line
drawn from Lssyenworth, Kansas, by way of
Jefferson City, Rolla and lrontOn to Cape Girar-
deau on The Mississippi below st. LOus-will, Il
capture ], be sent to a drumhead court.martial
and. on conviction, shot. Whoever within tho
Union lines destroys railroad tracks, bridges, or
telegraphs, for the benefit OF treason, shall lie
served the same way The property of all per-
sons who, in any part Of the State, take up Grms
against the United States, or are proved to have
taken active part with the traitors in the field,
is confscated to the public use, and their slaves,
if slaves they have, are declared free.
Such is the substance Of the Proclamation in
which Gen. Fremont gives the Missouri Rebels
fair notice that they are playing Hazardous
game in which tho losers will most certainly be
required to pay heavy forfeit. That the slave.
holders of Missouri, With their whito relatives
| and dependents, are the fomonters and chief sup
porters of treason in that State-thab they have
furnished not merely the leaders and arms, but
| the venom, and the lies by which thousands of
the ignorant and simple have been pushed into
the gulf Of rebeion--is as clear - the sun at
noon. Wherever Slavery is strong there treason
is active and furious. Wherever Slavery is weak,
there Rebellion has comparatively few adherents.
Gen. Fremont gives the Shareholders fair notice
that so many Of them as aid tho Robels will lose
their slaves if the rebellion dOes not succeed. IL
strikes US that he understands their ease, and
that, if there be such q thing as bringing them
10 reason, he is tie man 10 do il.
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