, 1862-12-19

Qbira9o Qribn,te.
FRIDAY, DECEa1BER 10, 1862


a F0RTN1GHT HENCE.
Hardly fortnight will elaapse before the
penalty that ought to have been launched
at treason when it first showea its lead
Will he enforced wherever an armed ressel
can penetrate bay, creek or estuary a}onp
The line Of our own coast, and wherever in
the interior corporaps guard Of Federal
troops have their faces turned to the South.
The great deliyerance Of the country from
the infinite sin and shame Of completely in
the selling Of men, begins to draw near:
The dawn Of the day to be made glorious
" the sun Of freedom, already streaks the
East-the herald and 1,arbinger of the full
illumination that is to gladden. the eyes Of
mankind
The prophets OF evil do not believe
that the President, upon whose fiat, as
Commanders in Chief, the dervcrance de-
pends, will stand firm. The abettors Of
treason and dcspotism are moving heaven
and earth to force him to give way hu-
ulors, terrible in the consequences that they
shadow forth, come to us from Washington,
thick and fast, saying that he has rccededi
that the complement Of the Proclamation
will never appear; that convinced Of tho
necessity Of Tie crushing blow, he lacks
the courage to strike and that the rcac-
tiopa1y power which loves Slavery more
than the Unicn, the profits and pride of
Of the nan-sellers more than the liberty Of
the race, 7estge Of barbarism more
tlan the civilization Of the country,
have already won: and that The
Cnion cause has been betrayed and butch
cred in the house Of its friends!
We know ABRAHAM LEcoLN. An
lonester and more patriotic heart than lis
neye1 beat in human breast, We know
llis allegiance 10 The principle that has
made him what be is We know the
broadness and durability Of the foundations
upon which he has built, and the con
SCIENCE and logic that cement theStructure
III which he t.wells. He fears God and
loves his country and lis Kind; and Is sure
IS the ncw year is ushered in, SO sure will
the pregnant words that shall ring through
al ages, marking this as the Era of Liber-
alton, and Abraham Lincoln as the fit
compeer Of Washington, be pronounced.
Let the friends Of the Union take heart,
and The earncster men. to whom The Union
is a guaranty Of the freedom Of all who are
in its embrace, be encouraged. The world
docs mGve-
The ague Of fear that shakes the rebel
lious soulh, shows with what fatal weight
the blow that the President still wit1,holds,
win fall when the appointed time for it's
descent has come. Until now defiant, AFRO
giant, and to human seeming unconquerable,
they have, we believe, been confirmed and
strengthened in their crimes only that the
explation thereof may be made more sig-
nal and te11ihle-on1y until the Govern
lnent and the people--inztru1nents in the
bands Of Divinity for doing its work
could be made to see that the path along
Which Justice moves is that in which Sue
cess must be pursued; and that, for the
preservation Of the one and the freedom Of
tie last, something more than the exer-
tion Of blind force-the butcherins Of men
BY the barbardsm Of wa1-some great re-
cognitlon Of the power Of ideas and OF
everlasting obligations Of tie code
in which right and wrong are
aefnea.-Was required Of this Republic
which has win1led at, nay, encouraged,
applauded, defended and sanctifed the
nunbe,1ess atrocities and denominations of
Human Slavery, so long! We believe that
tue requirements Of Providence are full
filled, that the blood that marks so many
tens Of thousands Of door posts all over
this land, that tie unutterable sorroWins
that has been carried to so many hearts that
the national humiliation and shame which
have followed disputed advantage and con-
tessed defeat, are so many agencies in the
preparation Tor tl1at work Of Emancipation
that isyet 10 be done. 1fso, {.nd who can
doubt the finger Ct Providence in all the
monertous histor; that the Republic
Las madeg rebel defiance and arro-
gance, as the fruit Of illusory suc-
cess. arc but the lures By which they
have Ecen led up to The ground where their
destruction will be sure; and the humilfa
tons and SORROW tAat have been thus far
our lot, are the preludes to a great and
enduring victory tAat shall make the iEse-
public really and forever free!
The Slavery question-the cause Of such
untold evils in the land-disappcars be-
meath tile horizon down into the dead sea,
Of the bitterness Of which it was born.
The Presidents Proclamation giving lib
erty to nearly four millions Of human
souls, whose enforced ignorance and Dru-
tality were at once the danger Of their
owners and the opprobium Of the nation,
will bush the wrangling and a1lay the
strifes by which our politics have been
marked. We shall have peace that will be
enduring-rot peace built on a foundation
of sand-and in which our people, long dis
tractcd, will have leisure and opportunity
to renew and perfect all parts Of that g1o-
rious structure that the Fathers, without 3
thought of the portentious dimensions that
Slavery would assume, built and cemented
with their blood.
Il DoUGHFACE DELUsK0N Ex-
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