New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-24
General Hooker Getting Along Finely,
NEGROES SENT TO WORK ON THE Battlefield
Bad Treatment Of Slaves at IIarpsr's Ferry.


hailed with the most joyful enthusiasm by the real
friends Of the Administration, and meets with mora
general approval from others than would have been
anticipated. Few venture to declare that they are
themselves decidedly opposed to the policy which It
inauguIates' but some are on the fence and s,,ns
shake their heads and express apprehension respect
ing the course which the Border States or certain
7 Generals may take.
Nobody dares to say that be win himself desert
the Government because Of this great blow which it
has dealt The rebellion, but occasionally person in
siuuates that his neighbor may do so. Now and then
the remark is heard that the President has been
driven INTO the policy Of emancipation by outside clam
or a most preposterous statement. For nearly year
Mr. Lincoln is known to have had the question of
Slavery, in its connection with the rebellion uuder
biz most thoughtful and deliberate consideration.
Within the Last few months, pereeving the great
Progress which public opinion was making, he has
given st closer attention TO the question. has n-
voked counsel from all directions and las looked to
Providence for guidance to the true solution OF the
great problem which, he told the deputation from
the religious men of Chicago, Was in bis ihongh,s
night and day. A number Of weeks since, he was,
as we telcgaphed you a month ago, the point OF
s,uing proclamation which fixed the Let Of De-
cember as the day Of Emancipation, and WAS cry
di,suaded at that time from doing so by tho strong
oppostsn Of two members Of bis Cabinet. This
statement has been denied, but it is sul siantialy
true.
The Proclamation now issued il an improvement
in several material respects upon the rejected
It was written Sunday, and WAS laid before the
Cabinet 1t an extraordinary meeting yesterday.
Every member. with perhaps single exception n
the person Of PostmaserGeueFal Blair agreed 10 it.
and will give it his hearty support. All accepted
it cheerially as indicating the adoption of policy
which they had long been urging 1t is to be sGded
that ia G proclamation is the Piesi3ent's work,
written without consultation, not altered, or, Il
altered at all very slightly, a, or after the Cabinet
meeting, and published TO the world within forty.
eight hours Of it, composition.
Viewed in one light the proclamation il welcomed
everywhere. Men,, whose instincts and opinions
ore tinted by pro-savery sympaihies have been
heard to say within Ia week, give US any policy
rather than noue' Proclaim Freedom rather
than halt between tgo paths" the sane men say
now the directol Of The war in the Cabinet and in
the held should lie confded TO men who heartily sp-
prove OF the Presidents policy. Those who are Tor
the Administration alone should be put in places
where they are required IA carry out tue will Of ths
Administration, and the President should see to j.
that no Others occupy places If trust.
The friends of the Proclamation regard Il as tho
beginning of tie end calculated TO separate the
sheep from the goats in the North 20 insure the
operation Of all loyal men in the South in the work
of crushing the Rebellion; to put foreign interview
ton out of the question hcnccior ward and 10 bring
the great struggle speedily to "A crisis Some specu-
lating on the probable response of Jeif Davis 10
this terrible declaration Of war, wonder whether he
NAV not declare immediate emancip alton himself
and inquire " Lat elect such declaration would
have-wh. tier the slave would accept freedom At
the hands OF his master at once rather than wait
bundled days for it at the hands Of bis real friend
tie Government, may be question. But this GER
ranly seems to be tie ouly trump card in JEFF. Dl-
ys's hand now, if the Proclamation is enforced in
i entirety.
There are good grounds for thinking that the
results Of the adoption OF the policy Of which this
paper Is the announcement, will be soon apparent ia
tue Departments OF the South and of the Gulf. Gen.
Butler will bee allowed without interference to "call
uron Africa for assistance, as he promised he should
do in cas- his white soldiers were not sufficient for
the work cut out for him to do; and Gen Mitchell
will be enabled to effect what Gen. Hunter attempted
and wonid have accomplished had the Government
given him its hearty support.
Correspondents from Newt Orleans viii no longer
write as one did in letter published in Yesterdays
Herald, that it is the army slone which prevents
nne-tenths Of the negroes on tie banks OF the MIS-
sissippi TO a distance OF fly miles above New.os-
NJ d rltsa
who have had tie daring to break through all bar.
ricrs be shot down in the streets OF city, governed
bv Union General into which they mad gone IN
search of freedom. Nor will others after being used
in the United States service be abandoned TO their
Rebel masters, ~ was the case at N.cksbnrg.
The proclamation il great il stands, but greater
still in the fruits which it will bear. For many OF
them we shall not be obi ged TO wait for the exPra'
tson of the hundred days grace. The President
received last week very eloquent letter from 'u''
eminent Democrat Robert Dale Owen, in when 10
urged bin to issue, as he has done, a proclamation
of freedom at the expiration Of the sixty caysA
grace allowed by the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES law
The popular enthusiasm here finds vent to-morfo"
evening in IL serenade Of congrauston TO the ffs'-
dent at the White House IL is expected IhA' GA
GOV. Boutwell, and COL Forney will speak Gems
Hunter, Hooker Clay, Dana, and other goou ou''''
now in the city, declare themselves heartily Ill '"'V'
of the Presidents proclamation Of freedom
Gen. Hooker declared witL great freedom thai tno
Proclamation WAS issued too late, rather thah 'o'
early, that the time had fully arrived when II was
inpossibe TO prosecute the war vigorously ana win
n certainly of success without it, Promlnet "'''
Virrinans now in the city say that the freS'eI'
Proclamation of freedom will be heartily inuoiSoc
majority of the loyal people Of their State tnis
M. ,.rllio continent az Western Virginia h"s