Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-25
What Is Said Of the Presidents PrOcIa-
nation.

sage OF the pFeSlucnl. us we TelOlCeu At lnS
abolition of slavery in the District of Column
bia, and the passage of the confscation act,
so now we are grateful for this proclamation
from Mr.. Lincoln. Step by step are we adj
vancing; the president, slow perhaps, but
right minded, is steadily making progress, and
planting his feet, with no thought of retrogres-
sion. The day is fixed upon which the slaves
in any state or part of state, the people OF
which are then in rebellion against the United
States, will become thencefOrward and forev-
er free, and their freedom be recognized and
maintained by the whole power of government
Do we ask for more? We can wait for it.
But we will rejoice at this, both as a substan-
tial achievement and cheering token. II
vindicates our faith in Father Abraham, and
gives us new hopes for the Union as it should
be.
From the Boston Daily Advertiser
This proclamation, like most of the docu-
mentS with which the president occasionally
Startles the country, has very shrewd adap-
tation to the condition of politics in the loyal
states, as well as to the necessities of the war.
The question Of emancipation, so long as it
| renamed open, was a source of constantly
| increasing dissensions, fomented by the mu-
tual suspicious of Interior purposes, enter
tanned by the friends and opponents of the
| policy. The president has now decided the
question once for all.
From the Springfield Republican, (Republican.)
1t is now evident that the president has not
been driven by the clamor of an impatient fac
| tlon OF his friends, nor restrained by the coun-
| sells Of the timid and hesitating, but that he
has had definite plan from the beginning
and the relation of each step in his anti-save-
ry policy to that which has followed is now APP
parent. And his integrity, his prudence, his
courage, his supreme fidelity to the eonstitu-
ton, and his purpose to do nothing which did
not evidently tend to the salvation of the
Union, and to neglect nothing that would OBJ
Ylously contribute to that end are all fully,
nobly, triumphantly vindicated. His action
| Is tlmely-nelther too soon nor too late. Its
| thorough-neither defeating itself by half way
measures nor by passionate excess 1t is Just
| and magnanimous-doing no wrong to any
| loyal men and offering no needless exaspera-
ton to the disloyal. 1t is practical and etfec-
tive-attempting neither too little nor too
much-and it will be sustained by the great
mass of the loyal people, north and south, and
thus by the courage andprudence of the pres
ident the greatest social and political revolu-
ton of the age will be triumphantly carried
through in the midst of a civil war.
From the New Haven Palladium, (Rep)
| A proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, presi-
dent of the United States, striking directly at
slavery, the cause of the present rebellion is
| the grand event of the age. 1t will be hailed
| by the loyal people of this country with Il Joy
to which words can give no expression. 1t
places our nation fairly on the side of right.
1t makes freedom henceforth our policy. 1t
| takes from our cause the support of those
only who love despotism, and brings to our
standard the sympathy of all Christendom,
| and the enthusiasm of men who desire to
| fight for principle.
| From the Albany Evening Journal (Rep.)
| This is the most solemn and momentous
| declaration the world ever Witnessed. If we
have the power to carry it into effect, this de-
claratiou disenthrals and enfranchses millions
Of human beings now held in bondage. OF
| the rightfulness and righteousness of this pro-
clamation, we have no doubt or shadow OF
doubt. Slavery is the cause of a rebellion
| whichha cost us millions of treasure and hec-
atombs of lives. This rebellion against
government which protected and cherished
alike the rights and interests Of all the states
has neither justification or excuse. Tho for
fixture of slaves will be a light penalty for sc
great crime.
From the Utica Morning Herald (Rep)
The great words are spoken. Not hastily
not unadvisedly, but with the deliberation be-
coming the subject, Abraham Lincoln pro.
nounces the noblest words ever spoken by
ruler Of men, Pronouncing the purpose o.
the war to be the maintenance of the Unior
and the constitution, and renewing earnestly
his proffcr of compensated emancipation tC
the loyal slave states, he fixes the day upor
which, in every state or part of a state then ir
rebellion, all slaves shall be free forever
That day, glorious in history for all coming
time, is the first of January, 1858. Upor
that day measures will be adopted to render
the fiat Of freedom etiectual. How welcome
these great words of liberty are to us we neeC
not say.
From the Boston Courier, (Secesh)
"We do not feel in any humor to take u
seriously, for the moment, a document 81
thoroughly prospective and so little practca
in its aspect, which intervening circumstance
may make so completely null and void to hi
conviction, as it is now, and must be, by ant
by, in fact. Mr.. Lincoln may think it WORT
while to keep up this show of compliance t.
the radicals; but he cannot help being awar,
that such documents can penetrate but a littl
way over the southern border, and can excit
only derision where they penetrate"
In conclusion the Courier derives comfor
from the reflection that slavery will be pre-
served in any event. 1t says =
IN nne, NOTWITHSTANDING any number o
species Of proclamatons, we rest our tru
Union faith upon these following plain propo
sitions: If the rebellion is speedily brough
to close, slavery in the states will rema
undisturbed. If the war proceed through
Mr.. Lincoln's administration, slavery will re
main equally undisturbed. If separation O
the states should be the result, then certainl
| it will continue undisturbed."
From the Boston Post.
There is nothing strikingly new in the mea
sures advocated in the proclamation. All
says about freeing the slaves of rebels ha
been practiced wherever our army has he'll
control, and the law of congress can only b
carried into effect in the enemy's territor
where the army is established. But the con
sequences of renewing this discussion by tn
executive in the present form can only be t,
introducing contention where harmony i
necessary to our national salvation, and doub
where confidence was gaining ascendancy
The declaration that slaves are free where on
armies cannot penetrate, of course is a null
ity and will excite the ridicule that follow
impotency.
The country will sustain all public servant
who adhere to the constitution, but whoeve
violates that instrument wilfully and design
eddy is traitor, whether he be in private 0
public life, and should be so regarded. i
whatever the president does to uphold til
constitutional government of the Unite
States, and to subdue the rebels now devasta
ting the land he will be cordially sustained b.
the unstinted blood and treasure of the peo
pie but should've transcend his legitimatelim
its to crafty the ultra spirits who urge him I,
extremes his own Judgment condemns, he will