Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-19
Effect OF the Emancipation Procla-
nation in the South.


The change in the tone of the rebel pa
pers since the issuing of the President.
emancipation Proclamation. is very great
and when they confess that doubt, terror
and dismay are'prevalent in the very hear
OF rebeldom, there is no room for doubt
as to whether there is not good cause fol
It. The Richmond papers tell tales Of
frlghtful decentralization in that city, OF
great destitution of very many articles OF
necessity, want of wholesome food, the
ragged and shoeless condition of a large
part of the rebel armies, the depreciation
of the confederate currency, n dollar in
, specie being worth two dollars and sixty
cents of confederate scrip. outspoken
charges of corruption, extravaganza, and
negligence on the part oftheir highest Of
fcers, the taking of the oath of allegiance
to the United States Government by six
ty thousand ofthe citizens of New Orleans
and vicinity, in consequence ofthe prompt
and efficient action of General Butler /;
the swarming of contrabands by thousands
into that city, who have escaped from
their rebel masters all of which things
are admitted to be facts, sad facts by the
Richmond papers, and their future conse-
quences are freely commented upon.
And yet, gloomy as are these things to
the rebel view, nothing has struck such
terror IN their ranks as the Presidents
Emancipation Proclamation. When first
proclaimed they pretended to laugh at'
and ridicule the idea of any effect to be
produced by It, and the rebel sympathi-
sers at the North sneered at paper proc
lamations" &c, but now, as the first of
January approaches, the knees of the Bel
shazzar of Slavery begin to shake, and
terror causes it to forget its customary fall
sites and for once to admit the truth
The Richmond Examiner of the 5th inst
fears that the Federal fleets will swarm
on the southern coast, penetrate the riv-
ers and ''open arenues Of %iarasiOn TO those dis
tricts Of the Souh schers the Emancipation
Proclamation can be put into practical effect"
The Examiner further Y
f'These calamities threatened in the cap
ture of our ports are grave enough. One
grayer, however, and more terrible than
all these, is to come if the enemy can get
a hold in the Cotton States, for putting
into operation there his Emancipation
scheme. Great efforts will naturally be
made to keep this pet measure of the Alb
olitionists from falling to the ground, and
to see that the wrath which Mr.. Lincoln
has bottled for the LIST of January does
not go into a harmless izzle of soda pow
der. So far in the war the enemy's
scheme of serFile insurrection has proved
a ridiculous failure. The attempt is now
to put 1t in operation where we are least
defended, to try the poison at the heart
of the South.
Prediction of future disaster is not a
pleasing tale to that portion of our people
who are questioning what the Gov
eminent does, and take for patriotism a
blind and clustering trust in the future.
1t is for fear of the consequences of this
wretched self deceit that we have pointed
out the important results involved in the
naval movements of the enemy on our
coast and rivers. We do not say that
Savannah and Mobile are or
are not in a state of complete defense
There is, of course, abundant military au-
in the South for saying that they
are as impregnable as Gibraltar but mil
Itary men and their mouth-pieces have
too ofeen succeeded in lulling our people
to sleep with a false sense of security to
pdmit the principle that they are to be
implicitly relied on, and that it is unpa-
triotic to resist their lullababies. We had
the same strain at New Orleans. The
people there awoke one morning to find
he enemy's flag in their harbor, and that
hey had been made the victims of the i
'loth and ~inefficiency of those who had
battered them with security" !,
The Philadelphia Bulletin says, of this
Who will have the assurance to say aft |
sr such testimony, and we have but cpl {
jOmized it, that the Emancipation Procla- !
did not hit the enemy just where .
ne was weakest, looking at it in a merely
point of view 1t is knocking a
he very last prop from under the rebel q
ion, and it will bring the traitors to their t
ense quicker than all the rose water fight
ng and John Van Buren-ish peace pratt
lie which could be accomplished in a CEN /
ury. The rebels will never escape from t
he shadow which is now darkening eve e
Y foot of their soil, until they hail the G
stars and broad stripes of their
'ountry's banner and see in them what ;
hey beheld in times when their brains d
Tere calm and their hearts sound-their
champion and shield against a ~
Torld in arms. v