Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1862-12-06

The Inhumanlty and ImpOllcy
Oflle Presldent's EmanCipa-
ti0n PrOciamatiOD---Why the
| President Must Revoke 1t---
A Capital Article.
[From the Louisville Journal, November2 Isl
WIN the President iciH not Try 10 Enforce
the Policy of the late Proclamation.
| We are permitted to publish this pregnan-
extract from letter addressed by an eminen-
patriot in Kentucky to a distinguished con
seryative in neighboring State of the North
81. 1t is an attempted usurpation of a
power having no semblance of justification
under the Constitution.
~ 1t is practical application Of that per-
nicious higher.law heresy which, in effect,
denies the nation the right or competency to
selfgovernment, by denying its right to re-
strain the power of its Official servants.
'3. 1t would be succumbing to the dictaton
of that fanatic faction who have been so large
ly instrumental in producing the calamity
under which the nation now suffers, and of
whose leaders it is the public boast that they
abhor the Constitution, and that for more
than twenty years they have tried to destroy
the Union-a faction who, if not the irrespon
sible victims of monomania, are the victims
of ruthless, yindictive hate toward the peo-
pie Of the South, which, if glutted through
this policy, will render our country the abhor-
renee OF all Christendom, as they themselves
are the opprobrium of human nature.
~ 1t IS y direct incentive, a certain pro-
moter of slave nsurrection-s0rvile war re-
sulting in the devastation Of the population
and property OF eleven States, while accom-
panied by all the horrors of indiscrimnate
massacre of the hel pless whites, with the prob
able destruction Of the larger part OF the
innocent, heretofore unoffending blacks.
70, 1t would be a gross violation of one of
the plainest OF the Presidents sworn duties
under the Constitution, which SO far from
permitting him to promote, makes it his
imperative duty to suppress ssch insurrec-
tons
&C. 1t is Of the nature of such Instructions
rapidly to propagate from county to county,
from State to State, and necessarily to involve
the border Slave States in the mischief in the
horrors of that terrible calamity so strongly
depicted within the last few years by that dis
tinguished Northern statesman, Edward Eve
rett
a. 1t would violate that principle of the
law of nations, of the law Of civilized warfare,
inculcated by our Declaration of Indepen-
dence, to which our nation was fully commit
ed during the Administration of Madison and
Monroe, by the diplomatic correspondence of
that eminent legist John Quincy Adams, who
pronounced the melting such instructions as
indefensble 'as the use Of poisoned weapons,
or the cold blood killing of prisoners
49, 1t would inact an indelble stain on
our national character.
"9. 1t would intensity that sectional hate
+ introduced and promoted by Abolitionisis and
!, Fire-eaters, the biler effects of which our
Government will suiierin the long future, like
, what the British Government has felt for
T. centuries from the hate of the Irish people
40. 1t would destroy that bountiful market
: more than two hundred millions annually
: which has so richly rewarded the agricultu
q raj, manufacturing and commercial industry
b of the North, and deprive the South of the
1 ability to sustain full share of the enormou,
r burden of our National debt
v III. 1t would embitter and prolong the war
e preclude all chance Of voluntary restoration
and so far Justify the South in the resstanc,
II of dispair rs to excite in its behalf the sympa
l. thies Of all Christendom.
~. 1t would be betrayal of those re
E. iterated pledges of the Republican party-il
n and out of Congress-un which the wa
l. was commenced a..
e "l3. 1t would be an especial violation O
L good faith toward the border States, who wen
lie into the war confding in those pledges.
IA. Its policy can not be carried on
while the good people Of the North retain an
'e sense Of that mutual affection which it
l. fondly hoped they reciprocate with their breth
rem of the border States
rs "l5. 1t will when received in connection
a with the declaration of martial law through
al out the Union, encourage by example tn
a. erection of that military dictatorship whic
t, considerate men are everywhere forebodin
u as the dreadful outcome Of the war, and whic
N a distinguished Republican leader has elaine
as for himself, and his fanatic colleagues in Cor
N gress the rghlrul power to establish, an
ir thereby supersede the President
y "l6 1t would be in disregard in hagrau
10 contempt, of that national will so distinct
le manifested in the result Of the recent elet
Of tons those elections manifesting, as they dt
is popular determination that the South sha
e. not be ruthlyssly destroyed under the pretez
ly of restoring tito the Union, nor the ConstitI
er ton destroyed under the pretext OIL its pr,
to servstion, and chat the war while prosecute
IS, with all proper vgor tor suppressing the r,
he bellion, yet it must be under and not over II
st Constitution; leaving inyiolate free speec
as free press, free ballot freedom from arbitrar
Y imprisonment, and all the other munmen
a of civil liberty The war against the rebe
"a, is sufficiently arduous without the Presidei
to suffering himself to be dictated TO by a Co
i" temptible minority into superadding WI
| against the public sentiment of the North
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