Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-06-13
WASHINGTON CORRESPOND N CE.
WAsHINGToN, D. c.,
June 4, 1862.

| SohS - ASSS'
Hum.n progress is in the main a steady
on-going movement, although often obliged tt
suffer temporary delays
! A few days since, as you rmember, the bill
for emancipating the slaves of rebels was de-
feated in the House, by four majority, foe
Massachusetts, members voting against 1T
Ii was > strange sight, five linen of Massa
chusetts' voting not to set free the slaves Of
rebel owners!
| It has been said that the rebels would will
| ingly submit to the Government, provided the
New England States were only left out of the
Union, and Of the New England they so much
| detcst Massachusetts, is the most odious -
Yet Massechugetts has five representatives,
or rather misrepresentation, who are willing
to burn incense on the altar of the Southern
God, slavery. When Massachusetts men
vote for slavery, directly or indirectly, it is a
cause for grief That State has the memorials
of so many struggles for human freedom, and
has yet living, Sumner Whittier, a Dwell,
C .ch of them the chIefest among the apostles
of liberty, that it staggers US to see one ofhe
sons recreant.
It is our consolation, however, that the
mother knows how to manage such children,
and we bide our time.
Then, too, we have the Presidents procla-
nation revoking the order Of Gen. uunter-
Good men could, for the confidence they felt
in the President and his genuine integrity,
have borne with simple order of revocation,
reading somewhat thus - Whereas, the
proclamation purporting to be issued by Gen.
Hunter is without any authority the same is
hereby revoked" This, say, could have
been submitted to without much murmuring.
But thai the President should 60 out of the
way to ask the RebslS to Jet no pay for their
slAves, is to many men very humiliating
fact.
And now we have the news that Governor
Stanley has closed the schools Of the backs in
North Carolina! A military Governor sent
there becnuse all law is disregarded. closes
these schools in difference to local ldw Of a
rebel people If the blood OF our soldier
brothers, '.withered, wounded, pale and dead"
was not crying TO US from scores Of battle
fields. Governor SANKEY'S action would be a
broad farce AS it is, it is solemn tragedy, a
ptiab'e, oeplorabe spectacle.
Well, the friends of freedom dropped un-
der these accommodating facts, but now we
feel little cheered. Re action has taken
place. Yesterday the black nations of Hayti
and Liberia were formally recognized by our
Congress as being among the nations Of the
earth, ard to-day that vote Of folly requiring
to emancipaie the slaves of rebels was recon-
sidered
Can it be that the dead bodies of our SOL
diers, and the long train of ambulances of the
wounded which have been constantly arriving
here for the few days past, were the argu-
nents lacking to convince Congress that the
rebels are IN earnest?
fear that the check we have met at Rich
nond is needed lesson. We were having
hinss so much our own way that we thought
III we had to do was to walk over the ground.
We were getting too magnaninous to our
oes, and to their peculiar institution. II ex-
,eriments must be made to save the nation
md slavery, let them be with less costly
Material than the flesh and blood of the
North. If blood is necessary 10 cleanse the
National fabric, in Heavens name let our au-
horities cease their efforts to stain it anew
gith slavery.
AL! hail to the time when .the axe shall be
i'd unto the ROOT" Of this dreadful rebellion.
J.. w.