Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-20
The Voice ofa Border State after EIgh.
teen Months of the War.
IFrOm The Missouri DsmOcrat.l


Missouri has certainly elected to the
next House of national Representatives,
out of her delegation of nine, five members
who are openly and unmistakably pied
ged to the thorough enforcement of the
Presidents proclamation of freedom, and
are radical supporters of the principles
upon which that policy is founded. They
are Knox, Blow, Boyd, McCIurg and
Loan. and possibly one other, viz: Green.
She has, in addition to that, chosen an
Emancipation legislature, which will send
two good and true men to the United
States Senate, and so shape the legisla-
tion of the State as to bring it in harmony
with the accommodation of the President,
and by freeing herso from the presence Of
slavery, relieve it also from the curse of
rebellion. s-'i' ,At
Whatever may be the verdict of the
people of the North upon the policy the
President has seen fit to inaugurate by his
noble message of liberty to four millions
of enslaved men, in the great work of
suppressing the rebellion, the result we
have stated is the answeu of Missouri, a
slave State, and the first to speak in res
ponse. If any have INDUCED the belief
that the presidents proclamation was
calculated to ALLEVIATE the hearts of the
people of those slave States, which have
so far remained true to the Government,
they may now dismiss it and dismiss it
forever. r, -..------
We have, for ourselves, ever since the
first announcement of the proclamation,
freely signifed our belief that the loyal
people of the slave States would be much
less surprised at its promulgatiOn, and
were much more ready and better prepa-
red to receive it, than the people of the
non-slayeholding States, The people of
the slave States have been forced to reap
the bitter fruits of slavery, in the rebel
lion. They have learned from experience
the cause of the war. They have been
taught the value Of peace, even if it must
be purchased at the expense of their
cherished institution of slavery. Their
blighted fields and desolated homes call
aloud for a vigorous policy and the men
who have suffered are not the ones to
spurn the prospect Of deliverance, at the
bidding ofprejudice, however old or howe
yer strong. When the proclamation ap-
peared, more honest souls in Missouri
shouted HGod bless Abraham Lincoln .
in proportion to the number of her people
than in any other part of the nation and
when they came to vote, their acts veri-
fed their sincerity. The President may
now rest assured, that Whatever may be
the extent of opposition his policy of libe-
ration may receive from other parts of
the nation, however many degenerate sons
of the free North may demean themselves
in the work of fighting the battles of sla-
very in the national councils, his hands,
in the good work Of putting down this
rebellion, and with it the cause which
gave it birth, win be upheld by amajority
of the delegation from Missouri slave
State now, but striving earnestly to be
free.
And st. Louis, the Queen City Of the
Great West, let the president know, has
declared in favor Of the policy of his pro-
clamations ina voice. winch none san fail
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