New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-24


Ice a. Dbl frmer. while the low grades steady Rye
Flour Is steady and in fair demand Com Meal firm aud in
fair demand TIE Wheat market is fairly active but is IL
regular Prime Winter is in good demand sud is lc
bushel finer and prime Spring Is firm, while ordinary do
heavy and unsalabe The demand l. chiefly for export thc
sae include go go bushels Barley in improved demand
and firm Barley Malt is in fair request and scarce and
frmer Oats in better supply and are duh and lower
Corn is in better demand for the East and the trade and is
ade sitter The Pork market Is more active and finer tie
arrivals are fair Beef quie; but seady the receipts
fair Gu, Meats are scarce and in far demand Land g. g.
fair request and firm. Butter is steady and in coed I
quest. Cheese IS firm.
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TEE PROCLAMATION Oy FREEDOM.
In sacred and proiaue poetry, tue cpltome
of all human wisdom, there is 10 truth more
clearly recognized than that in the lives of ma
tons and of men there comes sometimes
precious moment, a mere point of time, on the
proper u,e Of which depends salvation for that
rfr whether temporal or eternal. That mo
neat has come to us. The proclamation of
i.c President, which gives in certain CON
tngency--ahnost suIe 10 occur-treedom to
four millions of men, is one of those stUpendous
facts in human history which marks not Only
an era in the progress of the nation, but an
epoch in the history of the world. Shall We
recognize and use it wisely, or shall We
blindly and foolishy, refuse to see that We
have now our future in our own hands, and
enter upon that downward career which leads
eventually to ruin aud Oblivion
We tremble at this tremendous responsible
lity. We cannot forget how for nearly half
century the people of this country have been
taught in the church, the school, and on the
political platform, that evil is our good; that
the one sacred thing in all our institutions is
the system of Slavery. But we remember
, also with gladness aud with hope that the
counter lesson has been taught by portion OF
, the press, by the pulpit, here and there faith
full TO its sacred trust, By the waysidc by self
denying men, that Liberty is above all things
precious, the one thing without which there Is
no truthful and permanent national life and no
individual development out of which great ma
tons grow. We remember how the events of
the past two years have done and undone the
work of half century; and the people OF l-GO
have become, in 1862, a people of totally
different and new intellectual and moral life
Whereas in 1850 we bowed before, while We
deyoutly believed in the safety and the wis
dom of Human Slavery, IN lrG2 We know II is
our cure and our danger, costing US already
the lives of hundreds OF thousands of our
young men, aud threatening the dearer life of
the nation itself.
But while We rejoice and hope for the best.
we still tremble There are among us men
whose ioOlishness Will not depart from them
though it be brayed in a mortar-other men
who will not cease from wicked ways while in
the flesh. But the emancipation which the
President has proclaimed is the emancipation
of more than four millions of black slaves; ii
IS the freedom of wel-nigh twenty millions
from a thraldom they have been taught to
reverence Have they learned Alright the
lessons Of the last twO years DO they know
now that they also have been in bondage, aud
will they accept this great boon OF freedom
which q wise ruler offers them We hope
so; we deyouty pray that wisdom may enter
into the hearts of all the people. Let the
President know that everywhere throughout
all the land he is hailed as Wisest and Best,
and that by this great deed of Acknowledgement
to an oppressed peope--a deed, the doing
whereof was never before youchsaed to any
mortal ruler-he re-creates a nation.
For such indeed is the fact. by a single blow
he has palsed the right arm of rebellion. Slavery
is the root of the rebellion; he digs it up by
the roots. Property in slaves, the appalling
events OF the lost two years show, is dangerous
to the existence of the nation; he destroys
such property. The Rebels are dependent for
their daily subsistence upon their sayes; be
makes those slaves freemen. AS slaves they
are the mere subjects of Rebels, to toll for
them, to be used by them as beasts of burden;
as freemen they are the loyal allies of Il free
Government, asking only in return the protec-
ton which such a Government gives to the
humblest citizen by word the President
transforms State sunk in the semi-barbarsm
OF medieval age to the light and civilization
Of the Nineteenth Christian Century. As it is |
not extravagant to say that God had hid away
this continent till the human race had reached
its manhood and was fit to enter upon so fair an
Inheritance, SO it IL simple statement of a
truth to say that IN all tho ages there has
been no act Of one man aud Of one people so