New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-31
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Hiring -day-which is another name Tor Heart
f., eak day. On that day, at its dawn, i
b,s long been the custom that all the slaves
other than those whom it has been determined
70 keey. shall repair to the slave-mart, to b'
hired for the year. or be sold for life, as the
case nav be. Perhaps more tears and sroan'
arc WIRING from the swarLhy breasts on thai
day than on all she rest of the year. A sun
less day is that to which the people by then
President now propo,I to add a sun. God for
hid that aupbt sLopld mar the glory OF thai
morning For, if on that day the slave 'lal
look ND to our banner ard say, Though let
tered | am a free man." then shall the worid
see that
God hath .e, himself to SATAN. sIl wig ,'''d
One moments mis.rust On tbs ehd'
Bat it must be remembered that as Ye' w
have had no Edict OF Emancipation. Inc ''n".'
Democratic pres. has assumed a tone In the II
appeals to the President as if the thing ha'
been tried and had produced only evil. we
are TO remember that thus far We have been
reaping all Of the disadvantages and none oi
the advantages of such an Edct. We have
had the exasperated South and the divided
North, but no Liberty for the Slave. Having
drawn the one weapon that can save US, we
have been for one hundred days holding 1t by
the blade instead OF the hilt and il has LAGER
sted only orr own hands. Therefore no Undue
tive reasoning. can have been presented to the
Presidents mind rs 10 It's effect on the rebel
lion, and we must confidently .ook for ITS full
trial after that day. He has indeed sad that he
feared that his Proclamation "has not gone
skin-deep with the Rebels but because gold
will not dissolve in water IT IL no proof that
there is not liquid in which it will dissolve
Ii may be that the First of January will witness
important movements among The slaves, who
are very generally acquainted with the terms
If the Edct of Sept. -. Col. lligsinson, the
Rev. Mr.. French, and others, ci the Depart
msnt of the South, inform us tnat they are
constantly receiving negroes who have come
from hundreds of miles in the interior, and
that thoy certify TO the general knowledge
among the blacks OF the Presidents Proclaml-
ton. From Others also who have been IN
frequent intercourse with consrabands, we
learn that they knew very well that their de'-
tiny might turn upon the loyalty or d.slOy atty
OF their masters, and that they have been care
iul to preserve the evidences concerning the
same. la short, there is DO possible doubt
that the slaves have the New Years Ia! fixed
in their minds a. the Year OF jubilee.
And yet there are many reasons why 1t
should occasion no surprise II the slaves hesI-
tate some time after that date before they stir.
/. They know well that this measure of JUS.
tee mas been awarded them, not eagerly, but
that Il Was STAYED oil until It be-
came a matter OF life and death; that 1t has
been accompanied, not with increased iriendli'
ness, but a snow Of aversion.
,. Their imaginatious have been worked upon
BIS their masters to induce them TO believe that
,io.ence or Punishment awaits them at the
North. A fugitive from Eastern Virginia de-
,iar,, that The most religious masters IN Iii.
leighborhood had soemnly uformed their slaves
that they were all TO be sold to Cuba or South
America when they fell into the Yankees
hands, Another, that McCleilan'S proclamation
shout crushing them with an iron hand and
zen. Dix's against their entering his lines had
Deen pubcl, read to them in their Sabbath
. sembics. Ii is shameful to us that there are
80 many official documents of ours which could
De used to excite this panic in the negroes,
lnd We should not wonder if such chickens
should come home TO roost.
>. We must remember too thatwe ahal have
only Paper Edct Tor Freedom to offset many
Pr, Slavery Edicts wrtten not on paper but
N tho slaves heart, and in his own blood.
There was a time when even that bit OF peper
could have brought the negro TO our SIDE; but
now Slayery-thc real Rebel Copitoi-has been
surrounded by Chickahominy swamp of
plumbers aud outrages against that race, which
no paper spade can dig through Can the
slaves Of Louisiana forget those of their nun
bcr who, armed ouy with their implements Of
toll. reached our Ines at New Orleans there
to be shot down by our Own soldiers Can
the slaves OF Mississippi forget the unhcedcd
cries Of those 5000, who, after having worked
Tor us at Vicksburg just lang enough to make
their torture certain, were kiched oil by our
officers, whose knees they clasped, cntreatng
mercy and wantonly lett 10 their masters
Can the slaves OF Alabama forget those 400
who were promised their Freedom by Gen.
Mitchell in reward of faithful services, aud
whom Euell remanded to Slavery the first day
he supel scled Mitchell VIII not the | 800
Gu 'tured at Ilarper's Forry--for whom is no
to tell their comrades that the
| United Siates holds them in exposed posts, is