The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-09-30
Ths Press Poa tIir FrnHHci-
patian reclamation

to bc Gle practical fesulis
!. Fugitive slaves cannot 10 re-
taucl b il,eis maasfs ~ ous militia
- commanders. AMI a. tie TASTED
Staics courts are sasI pded fof tbo
time being Is lbg iasafg d s,a;as and
,he masters cannot pursue their fasl-
tive cbalicls into tie loyal States, tae
slaves Who escape are free, for the
iime beiug o. least
2, The same ground Is more than
covered BY The eouilseation emaneipa-
ton act, which makes free al slaves
of rebels and their allies coming into
our lines, al slaves captured by our
army or deserted by their masters,
and all slaves IN sections from which
the rebel forces have been driven out
by our forces. Our commanders are
instructed 70 enforce this law as they
march through the slave region, and
as we have often pointed out, this law
I secures emancipation N an tho insur-
gent country that shah be oyerrun BY
our armies.
3. The Presidents proclamation en-
+ larges the scope Of emancipation some
what, but with a limitation Of time.
\ Il declares free all slaves in States
and parts of States that shall be in re-
bellion on the first OF January next,
the limits of such insurgent section 10
be defined at that date by a supple
mentary proclamation. III any State
now IN rebellion shall submit to the
authority OF the government before
that date, slavery will still be legal
there, unless i shall previously have
been removed by the march Of our ar
mics through the State.
!. Compensation i offered TO The
border slave States, and to oilers
that return 10 their allegiance by The
lst Of January, if they viii cmaneipate
their slaves, and the aid Of the gov
eminent in colonizing such as will
emigrate from the country.
1 1t is now evident that the President
has not been driven BY the clamor of
an impatient faction of his friends, nor
restrained by the eounsels Of The iimid
and hesitating, but that he has had a
definite plan from the 55sgiumng, and
the relation Of each step in his anti.
slavery policy to that which has FOL.
lowed is now apparent. His action
is timely, neither too soon nor TOO.
late.
The Troy Times says -
Who oppose the Proclamation at
the North? The Courier des Etats
dnis, the disloyal French organ in
New York, opposes it bitterly. The
New York Express, whose vocation
seems to be TO stir up partisan strife
and ieuds among our people for the
benefit Of the rebels, BY daily minister
ing TO preiudices against negroes for
that purpose, opposes it. The Albany
Arg,tS, that has never given the Gov
ernment hearty, unconditional sup
port in the prosecution Of the war,-a
journal devoted to the most malignant
acknowledgement. Every man
North who loves Slavery better than
the Union, and I'LL secessionisis and |
semi-traitors, oppose and denouncc it. |
The Troy Why which plays fast and
looses its politics, serving one party to-
day and another tomorrow, and which /
now deyoies twenty words to the de-
nunciation Of Of radicals" to one
against the rebels in arms TO destroy
the Union, also opposes It. Or the
other hand, the Proclamation Is sup
ported by the great mass Of Union
loving citizens, who believe that the
rebellion should be put down at any |
cost, that traitors should be defeated |
and punished, that we may and ought
to assail any and all their interests, in |
order to vanquish them and secure the |
triumph Of Republican institutions"
Yew York, World, says;
President Lincoln is a very BIon-
din in the art Of political balancing
When in his elevated position a por-
ton Of the balancing pole is thrown
out on the left side, he deity projects
an equal weight on the right. While /
he was humoring the radicals in the /
process Of degrading Gen. Mcclellan,
he withheld the proclamation for which
they so loudly clamored. When the
unreleniing necessities Of war compell- /
ed him TO restore that general TO COM
mand, be found it necessary to paei-
~ ihis aractinn and rneddlesorne fac !