Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-26

VIC SuueC ~ ~ uS uestEOyeub OUT CQllQEen
and our childrep's children win curse
us forever. u0aEa
The PresIdeht,s Proclaim alton.
IFrom the Philadeiphia Press-DougIas papsri
The rebellion is at an end The President
has done good deed, at a good time. He
has pronounced the doom of Slavery ON the
American Continent. After dallyinp with
this great sin, because he dreaded to do
violence to the interests aud wishes OF any
portion of the people, he has accepted the
lesson of experience, and ends the war by
putting an end to the cause of the war. III
this rebellion has taught us Anything, it is
thatby slavery we have been defeated In
Our national progress-by slavery the
richest and fairest portions of our Republic
have been kepta desert aud wilderness
-by slavery a great part of the people
have been estranged from one another-by
slavery our institutions have been preVen-
ted from developing the blessings our
fathers Intended they should bestow.-I
Slavery has been the perpetual disgrace to
the American name. Slavery has bloomed
into sedition and ripened into war. Why
shoulditlive? 1t has menaced our dearest
rights, and has robbed us of our dearest
Kindred. This fearfnl monster, iutertwiuiug
retarding Its growth, destroying its use
fitness, making Its very existence wretch.
ed, at last sought to take the life which
had nourished 1t, and TO rend the bosom
on which 1t had grown. In self defence
we have wrestled in its embraces-wrestled
in blood, war, carnage, desolation, and
Straightforward all in vain. The struggle
is now for lite or deatht If slavery lives
the Republic dies. The Republic must
live, and so slavery must die. This is the
meaning of the Presidents proclamation,
and his words record slavery's inevitable
doom. 2H
President Lincoln has followed the logt.
cal course of events In issuing this prOcla-
nation. He has neither been tso soon nor
too late. He had multitude of interests
to consult, all of which involved the social,
commercial, and political happiness of our
people He found the institution OF sla.
very sustaining great agricultural inter-
est in many States OF the Union. Cotton,
sugar, rice, tobacco, and other staples,
seemed to live upon its labor, aud vast Euro
pean and American enterprise ON its pres
erVation. The hamlets of Lancashire
the counting-rooms of New York-the
mills of Lowell-the looms of France; TO
the nttermost ends of the earth-in India
and Australia-the safety of the cotton
crop aud the protection Of cotton labor
were matters of comfort and necessity,
and bread. II WAS not an easy
thing to proclaim a decree so universal 10
its application, and so radical and even
disastrous in its operation. Aud to the
honor of President Lincoln be It said, that
he did not make this proclamation until
the masters of the cotton crop aud cotton
labor compelled him to do so by their trea-
son and violence. Slavery might have
passed away in its own good time. under
the gentle influence of beni6cent free in-
stitutions, and the world would not have
fel the change. But this did not satisfy the
Of its lords, nor minister TO their
cupidity. They grasped at uaiversal en-
pire and sought to overthrow a free Re.
public, that "a Republic with slavery for its
might be erected on its foun
dations. How much they have d6ue to
this wild and terrible design,
the dreadful experiences of the past two
years-the blood that has been shed-the
devastation thai has been inflicted-the
general ruin that has everywhere extend
the sad history these days are
creating, will testify. That history is at
an end. The President turns a new leaf,
and atthe head Of the page writes Enamel
patton.
He has written emancipation, and there
it will last forever q tribute to his own
wise Craftsmanship and the fortitude ofthe
American people. The patieucs aud self
denial we have manifested from the begin
ming, in fghting this war with smaller
weapons, while the great engine of death
still remained in the arsenal, must forever
be a wonder. Butas we have been patient
and seIf.denyiug before, let US be active.
vigilant, and unrelentiug now. II any one
ever dreamed that out Of this chaos Of war
and destruction peace might suddenly
come as compromise, or by submission,
idle dream that it was. This proclamation
of the President ends the rebellion. twill
not do so to-day, or even to- morrow, but 1t
will end itin very short time, and 10 a very
summary manner. We are now putting the
axe to the root; heretofore We have conteu-
ted ourselves with trimming the boughs,
and breaking the branches forgetting that
new life was constantly oozing from the
soil. Itdoes not come as n wild exhibition
of despair, nor as a mere effort to rouse a
dropping public sentiment or rally beaten
and disheartened columns. It is the manifes
alton ofNorthern power; it is the result of
overwhelming victories. We have shown
the rebels that the sword IS potent with
us we have shown them that, without
going beyond the mere voluntary offerings
of lite and treasure, we have laid their
eonaeript ConfeasFacy at our feet, and now
we propose to crush where We have con.
quered, aud to take away the life Of the
great criminal who has pbeeh indicted
pnd convicted a. the bar Of Christian civ
iiiZafion