The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-09
The Proclamation of President Lincoln
on Emancipation.
From the New York Express.]


The President has at last been bored by the
radicals into doing what he repudiated IN
General Fremont, General Hunter, General
PheIns. and otheTs-that is, firing L paper
proclamation ut the rebellion. We do not
tnow what liberty is allowed in free white men
10 discuss this proclamation freeing negroes
Int we shall venture on the discussion OF 1t as
far us we think a white man liberty Will per
nit Before we do this, however, we have to
say that it is not :. matter to be regretted that
the President has nj last done what the New
ENGLAND Abolitionists have so long been bor-
inc him into doing-aS, under that dlctatlon,
it has to be done, &c, and being done, we
shall soon see whether CT not, as they have
predicted 1t will end the war in sixty or nine
fv DAYS by over-awing atfrig citing and astoun-
ding the rebels.
In the first place, it strikes us, the President
has 10 more constitutional power to issue
such proclamation than any other man. 1t
he has any constitutional authority to free ne
groes he has corresponding power to ensiave
them. The power exercised Is an assumption,
therefore, throughout, and hence is mere bTu.
tenn fuln,eR, the more, therefore to be deplor-
ed as mere paper thunder, because 1t but re-
excites, re arouses and demonizes the South,
in banishine all hope and in compelling des-
pair The power, if it exists, is Il mere mill
tary power, independent OF, and over, the
Constitution, inaSmueh as it changes the
ment into mere Abolition military despotism-
In the next place, what strikes US, Is the
inoppOrtuue moment of the utterance The
rebels have, within twenty days. been almost
In Washington, where the President sits in the
White House, and even now, we are told from
Washington, Washington Is SO unsafe that
Sicel and Hentzelmans corps are indispensa
bic in or about the forts for its preservation
while in the West, Cincinnati has to be forti
fed to be safe and Louisville is SO unsafe that
the women and children have been warned 70
flee from it. In such crisis to proclaim free
dom for slaves in Texas, Mississippi, Georgia,
Alabama, or Arkansas, Is about as absurd as
when General Hunter, shivering on the coast
OF South Carolina, proclaimed the slaves free
in Georgia; Alabama and Florida. The whole
world will laugh at the impotence of this mere
paper thunder-the European world rs well
as the rebels, in their yet untouched States
and strongholds.
The utterance of such n proclamation, I'M
der existing circumstances, So it seems TO US,
will add 600, 600 rebel soldiers to the rebellion,
and be on the instant worth $4,000 men to the
rebel Bragg in Kentucky.
The Prcsident-so it seems to us once more
is, in the utterance of this proclamation,
doing his best to divide the Northern States
and to split them up into parties-as well as
in proiOnging the indefinitely. Every
body holds TO certain principle in his procla-
nation, that slave property is like all other
rebel property, q fair property for cOnfcatiOn
or appropriatiOn-andt that rebels slave ia
ken in war becomes free the rebels
''granary," or arInory-or forage, generally.
But no great party yet holds in the North that
We are bound to be taxed to free slaves in Ma
Tyland, or Kentucky, or elscwhere-or that
the Federal Government is under any obli@a-
ton or moral to undertake q vast system of ne
gro colonization. Northern taxation for the
Southern liberation Of slaves is a new poity,
y,,I,
ers," who, in freeing the slaves of New Eng
land, or of New York and Pennsylvania, left
those States free to be rid of their slaves in
tEeir own way, and at their own expense or cost.
The President OF the United States seems to
have little conception of the enormous debt he
proposes to add to the existing enormous debt,
when in this proclamation he lays down his
three propositions:
The one, to pay for slaves made free by the
States. The other for the colonization Of the
free negroes generally. 1nother, for the COM
pensation of slaves lost by loyal citizens in the
rebel States.
Are we rich enough, with about thousand
OF a million of men under pay in the field to
increase that debt, to undertake what he
promises? Are not such undertakings the
booming, we may say, the daDtnati0R, OF the
laboring class for one hundred years, to the
service OF the capital of this country, and of
EUROPE WHICH must make US loans therefore!
But there are other great considerations
Pending-these are the revolutions proposed
In the political systems of the States, and of
the labor OF the country. IT, as the President
recommends, we deport 100000 OF slaves to
Africa, or Central America, we entail upon
the white labor of the North the doom and
debt OF the tax-groanIng scris and labor slaves
OF Europe-but if we do not depOrt them we
doom ourselves at home to an equality and
fraternity with these slaves, and the white hui
man mind shrinks from, with apprehension, if
not with horror
Four millions of slaves emancipated in
South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississip-
pI, Tennessee, Arkansas or Texas must, if
emancipated, have certain political rights
They must vote and govern, or be governed
If they are governed, the whites there will
soon become their masters and re-enslaye
them III they are not governed they will as
sumo political powers, as in Jamaica, and
HGyti, and soon govern here as there. In
several Of these States the blacks far outnum-
Der the whites and, as in Hayti and jamaica,
would soon vote the whites down and ride over
them in the use oftheir political power The
blacks would thus soon govern such States as
Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and LOuisi-
and, and when they do govern they will forth
with send two black United States Senators to
Washington. black members to the House of
Representatives, black Judges of the State
COurts, and We white people of the North, If
We continue in that Union, shall thus be COM
PEELED to share this black partnership with
them Are we ready for this? VIII it pay
for the taxation we are submitting to. and for
the prodigIous outflow of human life and human
blood we are lavishing on the field of battle?
Another thing that startles us in this Proc