Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-10-02

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war ends, Cut off from the hope Of suc.
cess and thoy ground their arms. This war
measure can bring to the Union cause equal
to half a million of soldiers, and will take
from the rebels half million. which will
be to us equivalent to the addition Of
million to our army. The man who opposes
this measure must be excited by the love Of
slavery to the mania servile point.
We dc not argue these reasons. Wei
scarcely state them Every ordinary mind
can comprehend their truth and every
honest mind will admit their force and
every patriotic mind, free from secession
sympathies, will sustain them.
No doubt the political compromisers, for
the sake of political party capital, will assail
the proclamation as an abolition tocsin-|
And as certainly they will misrenresent it.
Even now they are howling--" We told you
this cas an abolition ,cdr." But let it be
remembered these political hacks live by
misrepresentation. Let them be again and
again called back to the truth. Let them
see from the proclamation itself that n frees
no slave. That it only places before the
rebels the alternative of laying down their
arms or emancipation, leaving the election
to themselves, and giving them three
II UlOTIH5 u ut0DeEdtc anu give hu uuNWCI W
the Government. II they choose the latter,
and then fail in the establishing of their
| Uonfederacy, the emancipation is their act
I and deed, and on them rests tho respon-
!, sibility, not on the President. The Gov.
ernment has the right to make the halter
: the alternative and had the President
embodied that in his proclamation. and they
IS still persist in their treason, would not the
: halter in that case he charged to their ac-
, count2 But the Executive and Command
erin Chief has the unquestioned right in the
J, one case as in the other. More-he has the
: right to include both by proclamation as al
l. tentative.
f But farther. in regard to this proclama
il ton II is as certainly q guarantee to slav
!. cry as to emancination. The determination
IL of its character IN ftct is put into hands o
\. the rebels. In the event of their lawns
- down their arms Mt once--as they are in dut
# bound to 1o--this proclamation guarantee
h to them .heir slaves, III fer simp'c right, t.
. all intents and purposes and defends tn
same against all claims whatsoever. Il. n
III case can loyal men suffer bv this nroclama
! ton; nor can any but persisfentreJels AN
.e in the name of liberty why should not sue
g. suffer?
Secession svmpathiscrs would rather ~,
,e gallant sons should from year to wear fall h
~ hundreds of thousands sacrifice to tn
r. Mooch of slavery than that the rcbo
he should receive their moritcd punishment b
h taking from them their slaves, and that tn
le slaves should thereby receive Justice in OF
to tanning their liberty. And all this in an az
ey Of progress when the civilized world is cr,
nd ing out, fs shame, on our republican SLAYER
so Nor is any misrepresentation ton absurd
ey They can resort to any thing to mislead an
mt alarm the ignorant and vicious rabble. TT
cry is even now raised that the negroes wi
IA. all be freed, and let loose right among US.
ITS Yes,to many--to nmalgamate-and in evel
els thing be our equals And all this here
ICY have cut the throats of their masters, al
n. have taken possession of the South
Now men of common sense know there
nd not one word of truth in all this fool
Sc. alarm. And men of common decency oug
ON istering to the lowest passions of poor i
AL norant and degraded human nature. Eve
ow well informed man knows the very oppos
ihc are the tendencies of the doctrines of t
at, proclamation. Reason, philosophy, log
,ll- experience, facial establish the tru
al that the policy carried out will lessen, al
his not increase cooreI population i'll the tr
wn States. One gentleman from the W.
ice Indies, now in Washington, is endeavori
he to engage five Thousand or more cnntrabau
md as free aborcrs in the growing of cotton t
oi on his own plantation in one of the Islam,
nal Aud now simultaneous with this rebel W
ion aud the rapid progress Of emancipati
cpt sentiment, doors are as rapidly opening
lsa draining away from among us the black
He pulation Witness the ''eo,ign,tion Burea
sfer opened in Boston, with its lbranches in
uc.- York, Philadelphia, Washington. New {
nd leans, &c. Ship loads of contrabands a
II free blacks have already gone to Hayti
the Even now the changed emigration cure
ur ,has extended to Canada, and is destined
)is extend all over the North and increase wi
ute the increase of emancipation. 7 he I
has SET III South, and one of the certain
- fects of the policy Of the proclamation ,
ex- certainly be'to increase the tide Of color
un- emigration Southwark, and measure
the drain the North of its surplus black poi
mi lation. This will be as certainly the res
on as that Slavery and Southern laws hi
in tended to drive the coored people North
and COMMON SENSE