Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-10-02
be some time in December. In the
mean time it is expected that the mon
ey from the State will be received.
The Proclamation.

The ovation at Washington on
evening, on account Of
The proclamation Of Freedom by the
President, was noble response, on
the part Of The citizens Of the Nation
al Capitol, to the grandest edict Of
civilization. Speeches were
made by President Lincoln, Secretary
Chase, and Cassius NJ. Clay. = | /
The President said
What l did, did after a very full
and under very heavy
and solemn sense of responsibility.
| can only trust in God have made
no mistake. [Cries of "no mistake"
" all right."] l shall make no attempt
Oh this occasion to sustain what /
have done or said by any comment
1t is now for the country and the
world to pass Judgment upon it, and
may be to take action upon it,"
Secretary Chase said:
Nothing has ever given me more
sincere pleasure than to say Amen to
the last great act of the Chief Magis-
trate. In my Judgment, it is the
dawn of new era, and although the
act is performed under an imperious
sense of duty, created by military ex-
igences which give him power to per-
form it, it is nevertheless an act
though necessarily baptized in blood,
of humanity and justice. Applause
The latest generations will celeb, ate
ii, and the whole world will pay
homage to the man who performed it.
[Applause.]"
Cassius NJ. Clay said:
"The issue between liberty and
slavery, he thanked God, had come at
last. Applause. Did any fear the
result Cries OF No." and loud APP.
plause. As regarded the proclama-
ton, he said there were many who
said it was worth nothing at all that
we could not set man free by pro.
claiming him so. He regarded that
man who did not stand by Abraham
Lincoln and his proclamation, a trail
tor. Applause He had always op
posed mobs and disturbances when
peace was possible; bnt now that
these had appealed to the sword, he
would say, stand aside Let us have
an open field aud fair fight. Let
Justice prevail though the heavens
fall. Loud applause. Another thing
this proclamation would dot would
reach the slaves, in whose hands we
were unable to place the means of Of
fence, and lead them by this hope and
promise of liberty to make vigorous
efforts to bring about this desirable
object"
The President is justly celebrated
for his common sense and judgment,
and for the caution with which he ven.
lures upon measures which have no
precedent. 1t is to be presumed that
he would not have issued such docu.
ment unless he deemed the necessity
for its PRONUNCIATION had arrived. His
we'll known conservative habits of
thought forbid the supposition that he
was led into suc', a course by radical
pressure. The Proclamation bears in
every sentence the marks of his own
mind, and is indeed an outgrowth from
convictions and purposes previously
expressed. "l."..
The effect of the Proclamation OH
the rebellious States il may be difficult
to foresec. In Europe it will immense.
~ benefit our cause. England and
France will hesitate to intervene,
when Intervention would plainly be
to throw their influence in favor of
slavery. The Proclamation must be
regarded simply as war measure.
Whatever discussions it may at first
provoke at the North, it will, we think,
finally be considered as measure
which could not safely have been Ion
ger postponed. .. ......
The N. Y. Tribune calls down Gods
blessing upon Abraham Lincoln. 1t
thinks this is the end of the rebellion
the beginning Of the new life of the
nation. 81.
The World says the proclamation
amounts to little, and asks why if a
proclamation were necessary, it were
so long delayed?
The Herald says:
"The gravity of this proclamation
will strike every one 1t has been
'orced upon the nation by the aboli.
.ionists Of the North and the seces-
,ionists of the South. No event in
he history of the world surpasses that
me now presented 10y the President,
md which will be decided in the next
ninety days"
The Times says:
1.-THE wisdom of the step taken-we
-efer at present to that clause i'm the
document which declares free the
slaves of rebel States after the first of
January--is unqnestionable--its ne
,essity indispntablc. Its adoption
low, is not a confession that the mill
AIRY means Of suppressing the great
rebellion have proved failure, but
simply that there is point at which
my other legitimate appliances that
ian be called in, shall be availed of
also"