Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-25
NUMBER 55..

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of these men. He that runs may read It.
They see that We are drifting toward
Emancipation. They see that the demand
from the masses Of our people for this
great measure is becoming, iday by day,
more importunats. They know that a
majority Of your Cabinet favor it. They
feel assured, as siito yourself, that if the
option remain with you, It IS but a'ques-
ton of time and of form when and how n
Proclamation of. Emancipation will he
issued. They perceive but one power
that has any chance successfully to arrest
thisstreamand coerce your action. Openly
they appeal it Openly they declare
that Cabinet Ministers must be Imposed
upon by military ydietation. No other
course is left them TO effect their great
object, namely, to perpetuate among Us
that slavery which the nation, WITH de
termination which increases from day to
day. is resolved to uproOt ai
One. blow may be dealt by you against
these men that will crush, for ever. their
reasonable cabals. 1t is the same that
lays the foundation of peace, and assures,
beyond possible peradventure, the down
fall Of the Rebellion. They know their
danger They read Emancipation in all
the signs Of the times. Il is to them the
handwriting on the wall. foreshado-
wing their political fate What wonder
that they resort to desperate means to ar
rest its adventPs Lsia6 1t 17iiH 80 H's.
Shall they baallowed time, by insidious
argument, to entice the unwary. into the
ranks ofseaitionf Byiprompt action alone
can you prevent it 1t is idle to await
unanimity. Mon acquiesce in thousand
things. Once-rightously and boldly done,
to which, if,prOposed to them in adVance
they might find endless objections. IN
/ Do you hesitate? Will you delay the
blow See to it, that when ut last, YOUR
resolution is taken, the power may not
already have passed AWAY from your
hands. .f-rG yira yi5t
( The 2Sd of September approaches the
date when the sixty-day notice you have
given to the rebels will expire-expire
without other reply to your warning than
the invasion of Maryland and a rnenancc
ito PennsylvanIG Is it to rest there i?
Patiently we have waited the time Is
nothing to follow Are our enemies to
boast that we speak brave words-and
there an end of it?
I What day, If you but will it, NAV
that 23d Of September become! The yery
turning point in the nation's fate! A Giav
to the Rebels of dispair, to every loyal
heart, of exultnnt rejoicingI A day of
which the anniversary will be celebrated
with Jubilee wtilc the American Union
euduFes A dny 10 be remembered not In
our land alone, but wherever Humanity
mourns over the wrongs Of the slave, or
rejQices in his liberation.
7 You are the first President to whom
the opportunity was ever offered constitu-
tionally to inaugurate such day If. you
fail us now. you may be the last. Lift,
then, the weight from the heart of this
people. Let them breathe. freeonce more.
Extirpate the blighting curse, living
threat throughout long years past, that
has smitten at last with desolotion a land
to which God had granted everything but
wisdom and Justice Give back to the
nation its Hope and Faith in Future of
IPeaceand undisturbed Prosperity. Fulfil
You can far more than fulfill the bright
est anticipatiOns Of those who, in the
name of Human Freedom, and in the
face of threats that have ripened into ter
rible realities since, fought that battle
which placed you where yeg now stand.
II ~ .-s-7sn,y r. ID. OFEN.
New York, Sent. IL. 1862,