The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-05-22
Another Proclamation from Old Abe.

II Another Proclamation from Old Abe.
The rail-splitting usurper at Washington is
sued another proclamation on the 10th inst.
rdifecting the commander Of the forces of the
q. s. on the Florida coast to permit no person
to exercise any Office or authority upon the Is
lands Of Key West the Tortugas, and Santa
Rosa, which may be inconsistent with the Laws
and Constitution Of the U. s., authorizing HIM
at the same time, If he shall find II necessary,
tosuspend there the writ of habcas corpus, and
to remove from the vicinity Of the U. S. for
tresses all dangerous or suspected persons"
We understand that there is very danger
GUS" person, one Braxton Bragg, in close viciu-
ity to one of the U. S. fortresses upon Santa
Rosa Island, and that there is combination Of
suspected" persons with him, who are not
supposed 10 entertain any warm feelings of ad-
miration for Mr. Lincoln. We would advise
the commander of the forces of the U. S. on the
Florida coas. at once to remove those dangerous
and suspected persons from the vicinity of Fort
Pickens. Let him forthwith proceed to Pensa-
cola and read the terrible proclamation of His
Exalted Mightiness, Abraham the Great, in the
hearing of those persons. and see how quickly
they will dispense and remove themselves at his
bidding.
II is probably true, as reported, that the ami
able Abraham will shortly issue another SUBJ
lime proclamation, forbidding the sun to shine,
or the dews to fall, upon the Confederate States,
and commanding the earth, under the awful
penalty of his high displeasure henceforth to
desst from giving her increase to our rebellious
people. 0 Mr. Lincolnl do have little com
passion upon us, and destroy us not utterly
with your dreadful proclamationsl
The mighty Abraham appears to have derived
his ideas of warfare from perusal Of that por-
ton of the veracious history of New York, by
biedrich Knickerbocker, in which the author
describes the ingenious device Of the valorous
Wilhelmus Keft for Kidding the good colony Of
New Amsterdam of an inroad of pestilent Yam
KEGS. The grave historian informs us that the
worthy Dutch Governor, having summoned his
council and made them resolute speech, "as'
sumed most bellgerent look, and assured IT,;
council that he had devised an instrument, DO
tent in its effects, and which he trusted woult
soon drive the Yankees from the land. Sd say
ing, he thrust his hand into one Of tie deer
pockets Of his Jroad-skirted coat and drer
forth, not an internal machine, but An ins.ru
ment Of writing. which he lo;d with great en-,
phasis Upon the table. The 5urghers gazcd a
it for time in silent awe, as a wary housewif
does at gun, fearful II may go off halfcocked
The document in question had a sinister look,
red ribbon dangcd the great seal of the prov
ince, about the size of buckwheat pancake
Still, after all, it was but an instrument in writ
ing. Herein, however, existed the wonder O
the invention. The document in question wa
a PROCLAMATION, ordering the Yankees to depar
instantly from the territories of their Hgl
Mightinesses, under the pain of suffering all tn
forfeitures and punishments in such casa mad
and provided 1t was on the moral effect O
this formidable instrument that Wilhelmu
kieft calculated; pledging his valor as a gov
ernor, that, once Illuminated against the Yam
KEGS, it would, in less than two months, driv
every mothers son of them across the borders
The council broke up in perfect wonder, ant
nothing was talked of for some time among tn
old men and women OF New Amsterdam but thu
the vast genius of the governor, and his new
and cheap mode of fighting by proclamation"
At this point doubtless, Abraham became
weary of his slow task of spelling out the word
: of the history, and too rashly taking it fo
t granted that the invention of William the Testy
was an irresistible engine Of war, he drecte,
$ his man Friday, Seward to manufacture severa
gross Of proclamations, Of the most intimidatin,
: character, with the view of driving the seces
sionists into the Gulf of Mexico sin considerably
G less than no time" Had he patiently contin
) ued his historical investigations, he might hav'
g learned, in the succeeding chapter of Knicker
e bocker's history, the i'll success that ATTENDED
) the ingenious experiment Of the doughty gov
e ernor, and have profted by the information
5 Never" says the historian, twas a more com
| prehensive, a more expeditions or, what is still
: better, more economical measure devised, thai
t this of defeating the Yankees by proclamation
r an expedient likewise, so gentle and humane
there were ten chances to one in favor of it,
} succeeding-but then there was one chance t,
ten that it would not SUCCEEDS the ill-natureC
5 fates would have i, that single chance carried
: the day, The proclamation was perfect in al
f its parts, well constructed, well written, wei
: sealed and well published-all that was want
: ing to insure its effect was that the Yankees
J should stand in awe of it; but, provoking to re
late, they treated it with the most absolute con
tempt applied it to an unseemly purpose ant
thus did the first warlike proclamation come t.
a shameful end-a fate which am credibly in
formed has befallen but too many of its success
sors."
I v A Maryland Union Man.
| John p Kennedy, of Baltimore with whom