The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-04
The Presidens,s ProcIamation.

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sued his proclamation concerning the negro
question as it is involved in the.war, that. his
policy declared in it would be misrepresented
by the perverse partissns whose opposition to
the administration is sharpened and envenom-
ed by hostility to the cause of the maintenance
of the Government.
What is the policy that the President has
declared? Has he issued the proclamation Of
immediate, unconditional and universal eman-
cipation, which was demanded of him by the
radicals? Certainly not. -
He declares that the war is to be prosecuted
hereafter, as heretofore, with the view of re-
storing the constitutional relation between the
General Government and the people of the in.
subordinate States.
He reaf6rms his policy of compensated eman.
eipation in the border States, and of paying
loyal citizens who may be deprived Of slave
property by acts of the United States Govern
ment the full value of such property. Is there
anything needless. indicriminate, irrational
fanatical, in this? ~ .# aaa. a
! He delares in favor of the policy of coloniza-
ton, having no disposition to allow the eman-
cipated negroes to be thrust upon unwilling
communities. If the people of the United
States desire to pay for the expectation Of black
llaborers, there is no doubt the President is
ready to accommodate them by seconding their
wishes; and he is now looking out for eligible
places for colonies of emancipated negroes.
And what is that the President proposes to
do on the first of January? Does he propose
to use the military power to make the negroe
the equal of the white mar, as the dirtiest class
of demagogues will assume? Does he propose
to make the war Eight for niggers?" Not q
bit of it.
All that any rebel State has to do this day
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tional rights unimpaired-with full power to
control her local and domestic affairs (includ-
ing the slavery question: subject only to the
Constitution of the United States-is to &C.
knowledge the authority of the General Gov.
ernment and send her representatives to Cons
gress. And If, after the hundred days warning
the rebels still hold out and make war upon
loyal people of the nation, it is to be proclaim
ed that the relation of slavery is not to be
recognized in the States and parts of States, in
rebellion. The endeavors of the negroes them.
selves to become freemen will not be repressed
by the national troops, but they will be coun-
tenanced and supported in attempts they may
make to dissolve the servile relation which
they bear to their masters. If q loyal man
loses slaves he is to be paid for them If Q
rebel loses slaves-there is an end of it. The
slaves are uOt 70 De eleV8teu ny auy artluClaI
process. The weight of U. 8. authority is to
be removed from their shoulders, and they are
to be allowed to fight for themselves.
We do not perceive that any friend Of his
country has right to be displeased or alarmed
at this policy-the announcement of which has
all along been question OF time and expediency
question which it would be worse than useless
now to discuss.
1t has oeen apparent from the first Of the war
that if the rebels carried it to an extremity,
their pet institution-their "corner stone," as
their Vice-President called it would be destroy
ed. They now receive fair warning, that in q
little more than three months the Government
will promote rather than interfere with that
destruction which clear headed meI the world
over have seen was the logical result OF the
. rebellion.-[Cincinnat Commercial.
The New YORK WoRLD,-Tbis paper has
thrown off all guise Of political neutrality, and
has committed itself fully to the principles and
policy of the New York Sham Democracy. In
its new vocation, it has all the newborn zeal,
which young and fiery converts feel" Il eulo'
gzes Seymour. and others of the New York
Sham Democratic candidates, and it assais the
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