New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-27
THE NEW BAsR.

| Though we should have issued very different
decree OF Emancipation from that Of President
| Lincoln, we are not at all sure that his method,
while slower, is not also surer than ours For, first,
i. dispels all shadow of pretencc that he has taken
a snap.judcment on the Slaveholdng Rebels. II
they prefer not to face tie manifest perils Of
Military Emancipation, lie has given them ample
time AMI opportunity TO avoid them. They have
ihree fun months and over wherein TO lay down
their weapons Of treason and murder and invoke
tie ma,nahimity of the Government they have
defed and the Nation they huVe attempted to
destroy. No one doubts that they will be
leniently treated if they throw themselves on The
clemency Of the Republic. There are assassins
among them vino have steathily lain III
wait for their neighbors and shot those neigh
bors while standing unarmed and unsuspecting
on their own doOrsteps, for 10 other Ofense
than that Of loyalty to the most benehcent
Government on earth; these villains will have
to face the laws they have outraged: but no
one would wish, after the majesty Of the laws
shall have been vindicaied to hang even will
Iul tIditoi IOi uSbo VI maui. whit
ted under the frenzy Of rebellion. A prompt,
simple, unqualified return TO loyalty will yet
save the great body Of the Southern Rebels
from all further pains and penalties than those
they have already inflicted on themselves. |
The Constitution was the safeguard of their
local institutions so long us they were faithful
to its requirements: it will protect them afresh
from the moment Of their return TO loyalty,
provided they do this within the liberal term
accorded them by President Lincoln.
But if they outsin their days of grace-if
The 1st Of January shall find them still defying
the authority Of the Republic, insulting lis flag,
and embattled to resist and slay its defenders
they will have sealed the doom OF Slavery.
The edct OF Freedom which then takes effect
can never be revoked. The rights which it
creates can never be annulled. The liberty it
coneTs cannot be taken away. la all History,
we recall no instance wherein people once
emancipated by sovereign authority have ever
been reen,layed. If, then, the Rebels do not
mean time 10y down their arms, Slavery to them
will legally cease on the lat Of January next; for
it is morally certain that Congress will buy
out the handful Of loyal Shareholders. 40 az to
make the sweep a clean one, and leave no re-
maining ground Of peril aud domestic conyul-
sion.
Let, then. our Generals stand on the defensive,
if that be deemed beet, and our new levies be
drilled and exercised throughout the inter
yening months, while our new iron-clads arc
being completed and armed and our fleets
prepared for ascending every Southern river so
soon as the Winter rains shall have filed their
banks; while tho glad tdngs speed from Vir-
ginia TO Texas, and dark faces CLEAN at iurtive
midnight meetings with the knowledge that the
President las decreed that the LIST Of January
next shall shatter for ever the chains OF -Four
Millions Of human beings. If on that day we
shall be ready at oil points, q few weeks a.
most must seal the fate Of the Shareholders
Rebellion.