The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-11-13
LOOK IT IN THE FACE!

brought 10 n successful close, and that is
in the democratic way. II must be re-
garded as matter Of business, and pur-
sueG NTH The single intent TO ,0in militia
ri successes. The effort TO cucumber
it with the emancipation policy simply
divides the attention Of the people, and
renders one half afraid Of the other half
1t gives, besides, prominence TO adyen-
turers of the Sumner, Greeley and Chan
dior school, men who trade in negroism,
and whose occupation will be gone the in
slant that this is made absolutely white
mans war. Their influence has always
been bad. They famed the flames of
treason in the South. They were as eff
fective northern allies, during the last
regular session of Congress, of Davis,
Rhett, Toombs, and the other traitors, rs
the bitterest constitutional opposers. They
have not been listened 10 once during the
war without serious disaster following.
Their appointees, their plans, their infu-
cnce, have all alike been bad and corrupt
Their predictions have all proved falla-
cious, and they have generally shown not
only that they disregard the constitution,
but that they have not this day the faint
est idea of the magnitude Of the struggle,
or of the dangers at home or abroad
which menace the nation. The agitation
of emancipation only serves to keep them
before the public. In everything which
regards actual plans of campaigns, or
which brings success 10 our arms, they
arc unheard and unknown. Yet many
people seriously listen to their prattle
about freeing the slaves in States which
the Federal forces can not penetrate, and
of making n war of negro emancipation
when we are really unable to turn the tide
of hostilities from the border free States.
Was there ever so great nonsense before !?
Missouri jeopardized, nearly lost in fact,
by the Vaccinations of an abolition Gen
eral; Maryland smothered volcano;
Kentucky debatable ground, TO be held
only by expenditure of blood and treas
ure; Virginia occupied absolutely by the
rebels; the national capital in danger,
and the Confcderatcs with equal numbers
Of troops TO ours in the field, and certainly
with the prestige Of victory in their favor
it is under these circumstances that
these men would unfold the banner of
emancipation, waving it aloft among our
friends, for they have not the power to
hout in the faces Of our foes. The great
point now is to get into the disloyal
States, not what we shall do when we
get there. SO long rs Confederate ar
mics arc in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennes-
see, and Virginia, emancipation is utterly
impossible. So soon as those armies are
conquered and dispersed, the rebellion is
done, and emancipation will therefore be
unnecessary. If escorted 10 at all, il must
be in aid of the military arm. But
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when our armies are victorious their work
will be accomplished, and they will, there
fore, need no further aid. The talk of
emancipation, then, is only a method of
distracting attention from tho serious res
possibilities Of the present hour. What
the people need now is to direct all their
energies TO the overthrow Of the barriers
of armed men who grid around the en-
trance TO the secession States. How can
we best do that? is the practical question
not, what shall we do after we have
done it Price is in Missouri, Polk and
Zollicofer, and Buekncr, and other rebel
Generals hold the field in Kentucky and
Tennessee, and the divisions Of Johnston
are still on the Potomac. 1t is very nice
to build castles in the air, and to dream
these columns dispersed and our triumph
ant forces marshaling parchment deeds of
manumssion down to the Gulf Yet,
the columns arc not dispersed, and all
questions rs 10 what shall follow their
overthrow are childish and unwise. If
Mcclellan conquers Jonston thore will not
be slave in the South to be manumit-
ted, because all the masters will side with
the government and hasten to make their
peace; but, if Johnston conquers Nc
Clellan, the rebellion will be success
and Washington the capital of tile Con-
federate States. The true issue, there
fore, is not how can we emancipate the
negroes, but how can we insure victory
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