The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-04-12
PROGRESS.

representation that the nation is in
clined benceforward 70 advance in the d.
rection of impartial Freedom rather than
retrograde towards the Dark Ages.
First: The officers of the army are
strictly forbidden TO aid the Rebels, against
whom they are professedly fighting. by re-
turning TO them thei. fugitive slaves. That
is thing finished. "No more slave CATCH
ing by the armyl' T.
Second: The Government openly con
hives at the efforts of an association to
teach the ex-chattels of the chivalry about
Port Royal how to read! Who ever heard
of such a thing before Why, it is strict
Iy forbidden by Rebel law" and here is
8 notable infraction of the rights of our
Southern brethren ~ Before this year OF
grace, 1862 since the Savior of men, hum
dreds of the descendants of Ham and Ca
naan may have learned not only to spell
"b-a ba, k-e-r ker, baker," in violation of
the statutes of South Carolina in such cases
made and provided, and heinously against
thepeace and dignity of the State" but they
may, some of the brightest and most hard
ened of them, be reading the sacred words
of the New Testament, thus utterly destroy
ing their value as property, and the United
States Government is actually aiding and
abstting in this atrocious attack upon the
rights of our Southern brethren, just as
cooIly as it would aid in spiking a Rebel
battery. zT
Third The President recommends to
Congress the passage of resolution de-
claring the willingness Of the General Gov
eminent to aid the States in getting rid of
the slave system 7! President Lincoln must
either be insane or bopelessly given over TO
the belief of those self-evident truths that
Thomas Jefferson and his brother fanatics
smuggled into the Declaration of Indepen-
dence Does not Mr. Lincoln know that
he is flying in the face of all (respectable)
precedent? Does he not know that it has
been the chief business of the Government
for the last thirty years TO foster, extend,
strengthen and perpetuate this same sys-
tenn which he is now laying plans to get
rid of? Does he not know that he is un-
dertaking to pull down and destroy that
very system of slavery for the unfolding
Of which John G. Calhoun devoted his life,
and McDufie his prayers? Does he not
know that be is flying in the face of Rev.
DR.. Lord, Rev. DR.. South side Adams, the
New York Herald and Day6ook, and the
Leavenworth Inquirer? Alas alas Abra-
ban is joined to his idols, and is evidently
little better than "nigger .worshipper y
Fourth But it would seem that Con-
gress is in nearly as reckless frame of mind
as the President. for they have actually had
under discussion, for weeks past, bill for
the immediate and total abolition Of Slavery
inlthe District Of Columbia! And It is now
rumored that the bill viii be very likely TO
pass, and become law. Where then will
be the 'corner stone of our republican in
stitutions 90 How can the Foreign Minis
tiers who come to reside at Washington to
observe the workings of our institutions, get
an adequate idea of them, when the greatest
and most peculiar of them is removed out
of their sight? Every schoolboy knows that
the Spartans used to make their slaves drunk,
at certain seasons, and show them to their
children, in order that the disgusting spec
tacle might forever prevent the children from
imbibing taste for Intoxicating fluids. How
can the classical experiment be repeated at
the National Capital, if the slaves are set al
iberty? Every body knows that Honorable
Senator's and Representatives have been
none too highly distinguished for sobriety,
with all the advantages of the past. What.
then, must be their condition for the future?
Aud how can they SO eloquently set forth
the beauty and the dignity of Freedom. when
they can no longer have the spectacle of
Slavery before their eyes. to point the moral
by way of contrast?
Verify, the world does move And FIRE.
mont, the Pathfinder of the Mountains
whom Traitors and Doughfaces hate, as by
instinct-has arrived at Wheeling. and is
about to seek path to Cumberland Gap
It seems that Wendell Phillips was gross
" misrepresented by the telegraphic reports