Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-27

4hg E-EGblaehL'B EEOGl1IuAttons
1t ia to be expected when the President
issued bis proclamation concerning the ne
gro question as involved in the war, that
his policy declared in it would be misre-
presented by the perverse partizans whose
opposition to the Administration is sharp.
ened aud envenomed By hostility to the
cause of the maintenance OF the Goyeru-
ment.
Whist is the policy that the President has
declared2 Has be issued the proclamation
of immediate, unconditional and universal
emancipation, which was demanded of him
by the radicals? Certainly not.
he declares that the war is to be prose-
cuted hereafter, as heretofore, with the
view of restoring the constitutional rela.
tion between the General Government and
the people of the insubordinate States.
He reafirms his policy of compensated
emancipation in the border States, and of
payiRg loyal citizens who may be deprived
Of slaYeproperty by acts of the United States
Government the full value Of such proper
ty. Is there anything needless, indiscrim-
mate, irrational, fanatical, in this?
BE declares in favor of the policy of coll
oniEation, having no disposition to allow
the emancipation negroes to be thrust upon
unwilling communities. If the people of
the United States desire to pay for the ex-
portation of black laborers, there is no
doubt the President is ready to accommo-
date them by seconding their wishes; and
he is now looking ont for eligible places
for colonies of emancipated negroes.
Aud what Is that the President proposes
to do on the first of January2 Does he
propose to use military power to make the
negro the equal of tue white man, rs the
dtrtiest class of demagogues will assume
Does he propose to make the war eight
for niggers7" Not bit of il.
All that any rebel State has to do this
day to come into the Union with all her
constitutional rights unimpaired-with full
power to control her local and domestic
affairs (tncludiug the slavery question:
subject only to the limitations upon pro-
vincial government OF the Constitution of
United States-is to acknowledge the au-
thority of the General Government and
send her representatives to Congress. And
If, after the hundred days warning, the
rebels still hold out aud make war upon
the loyal people of the nation, it is to be
proclaimed that the relation of slavery is
not to be recognized in the States and
parts of States, in rebellion. The eudeav-
ors of the negroes themselves to become
freemen, will not be repressed by the ma
tionaltroops, but they will be countenanced
NeN SNEPSAtS9 ~ htbGluPko lucy may
make to dissolve the servile rels uon which
they bear to their masters. II loyal man
loses slaves he is to be paid for them. If
rebel loses slaVes-thefe is an end of it.
The slaves are not to be elevated by any
artificial process. The weight of the u.
s. authority Is TO be removed from their
shoulders, and they are to be allowed to
fight for themselves.
We do not perceive that any friend of his
country has right to be displeased or
alarmed at this poIicy-the announcement
of which has all along been a question of
time and expediency, a question which it
would be worse than useless now to dis
cuss.
1t has been apparent from .he first of the
war, that it the rebels carried it to an ex.
tremity, their pet institution-their .corner
stone" as their Vice. President called it,
would be destroyed. They now receive
fair warning, that 10 little more than
three months the Government will promote
rather than interfere with that destruction
which eleer headed men the world over
have seen was the logical result of the re-
bellion.