Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-03
The Emancipation Proclamation.
And what is said About it.

this important document in our last,
along with the proclamation itself
Our readers having had time to read
and form their own conclusions, would
like to know how it is received by the
country. We are beginning to receive
the response of the press and of public
bodies, and will give, briefly, the sub
stance, so far as we can gather it from
our numerous exchanges.
The Cincinnati Gazette, the oldest,
ablest, and most influential journal in
the West, gives it cordial greeting, and
says:
aslavery has been the great lever of
the rebellion. The President now
makes it lever to restore peace and the
EeUnion. The way to save slavery is
simply to submit to the Constitution,
and accept the security it always had.
The way to destroy it is to persist in re-
beIion."
The Commercial, being an Ismaelite,
could hardly be expected to approve
anything, but it does, upon the whole,
approve the proclamation. 1t says;
"We do not perceive that any friend
of his country has right to be dis
pleased or alarmed at this policy-the
announcement of which has all along
been question Of time and expedieucy,
a question which it would be worse than
useless now to discuss" y
The Cincinnati Enquirer goes off, as
we expected, foaming as mad-dog at
the sight Of water. Its disease is
ehronic-its case hopeless. Let it
slide. 1t would rant wilder on the
"nigger" and "Abolitionism if it could,
but it was doing its best before. 1t may
probably parade its "nigger' a little
oftener, and shout "Abolitionist" lit
tie fercer-it may possibly enlarge its
dimensions that it may get in more
"nigger," and issue some extra editions
in order to treat its readers to little
more "nigger," but it can't improve
much upon the past.
The Ohio Statesman follows the lead
of the Enqmirer, of course. A paper
that was openly and notoriously secesh
until compelled, by the loyal men of its
own party, to, at least, profess support
of the Union, could not be expected to
sanction such document. 1t gives an
extra howl at "Abolitionism, and
"wallops" the negroes with slightly
intensified degree Of malignity; but, like
the Enquirer, it could not add much to
it's former attainments.
The Ohio State Journal gives the
proclamation a warm, cordial, whole
souled support. 1t says:
at is the proclamation of the war,
and will electrify the pulse Of the na
ton and of the world
The Chicago Times (semi-secesh)
asserts that the President has at last
weakly yielded to the pressure upon
him about which he has so bitterly
complained, and issued his proclamation
of negro emancipation. 1t says:
"The Government, then, by the act of
the President, Is IN rebellion, and the
war is reduced to contest for subjuga-
ton. Itnss assumed the character that
Abolitionism has designed from the out
set it should assume. When the war
shall be finished, whether the South
shall be subjugated or not, the character
of the Government will have to- be de-
termined, if indeed the military power
shall not have already determined it. .
The New York Tribune recapltulates,
in double Headed article, the main
features of the proclamation, and adds:
"Such, in brief, are the provisions of
the proclamation. 1t is the beginning
of the end Of the rebellion. The be-
ginning Of the new life of the nation
God bless Abraham Lincoln"
The New York Herald don't venture
to take ground against it, but says it
was forced from the President by the
"Abolitionists Of the North and the
Secessionists of the South" The Her.
aid, ever since it was compelled to take
down the rebel flag, has labored with
satanic" cunning and malignity to di-
vide the Cabinet and the loyal people
of the North. It has never said one
word against the rebellion or the South
ern conspirators, without coupling with
them the most prominent loyal men of
the North.
The New York Times says:
s. ''The wisdom of the step taken is un-
questionable-its necessity indisputable.
1t has been declared time and again by
President Lincoln that as soon as this
step became necessity he should adopt
it. Its adoption now is not a confession
that the military means of suppressing
the great rebellion have proved a fail
ure, but simply that there is a point at
which any other legitimate appliances
that can be called in shall also be
availed of. Slavery is an element of
strength to the rebels if left untouched"
The National Republican, Washing
ton, gives it most cordial support,
and says:
1.-THE foregoing proclamation will be
received by the loyal States with perfect
furore of acclamation; while it will lose