The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-09-18

Whether the rebels can increase their numbers
as readily as the government can, remains TO be
seen, but probably their limit of supply is about
exhausted.
Another question that seems to be a riddle is,
where do the rebels obtain the powder necessary
for their armies, when the coast is so closely
blockaded? They do not possess the materials
required in its manufacture, except to Il very
small extent. And yet we never hear of their
being short of ammunition, but every where,
from Richmond to the Red River, it is abundant
and exhaustless. One thing has become evident
to all, and that is that the Southerners are terri
bly, in earnest and have resources we know
nothing of. The North has had no real concep-
ton of their desperation or the fertility of their
expedients, as is evinced in their keeping up and
maintaining as q unit such vast forces as they
have. If the North is to conquer, it, too, must
be awakened, and display all its energy, power
and resources, or the attempt to crush the rebel
lion will prove a ten years war.
Perhaps the most important news by the last
arrival is the growing disposition on the part of
the North to resort to the last and strongest
weapon in their power against the rebels-a
proclamation Of emancipation Of the SLdreS.
Everything appears tending rapidly to that final
issue, and though it may not take place during
the present year, the rebellion cannot continue
many months without bringing it out. Read
the speech of Gen. Rosseau, at st. Louis, on our
fourth page He is Il Louisianian, born under
the rule of slavery, and himself a stakeholder.
% have warned our Southern friends he says,
" of the danger OF continuing this rebellion
much longer and l tell You tonight that if this
continues n va1r from this lau Tho Spaarb
was made in May or June,1 there ociH not be a
Stare on this continent" This is but a straw, TO
be sure but straws show which way the wind
blows"
But lest that may be considered erParte evil
dencc, we give Il quotation from the New Orleans
Picayune, issued only in June last, as follows:
"Now We do not presume to p~rophesy. What fate
God, IN His inscrutable providence, has in store for
this distracted land, we would not be so rash as con-
fidently 10 predict. But we think we are justified in
ayerring that no lasting peace, no arrangement which
Is worth making, can ever be carried out, while this
element of slavery agitation is allowed to have its
past and present scope. The victory, which superior
force of men, money, and munition OF war may ena-
bic one party in this contest to achieve over the
other, can be, while this fatal element survives, but
victory over material things, over lands, over goods,
resources. But it can never prove n conquest
thought, feeling, sentiment, conscience, religion,
faith, and selt-respect. To win these all back, there
must be first produced the conviction that with peace
restored is i~nfallibly to come the certainty of peace
and to the attainment of that consum-
nation there Is one thing needful, Il utter erttnc-
hon Of the SIGrery question as u political ELEMENT
Following close on to this, and in corrobora-
of it, is Il telegram by the last arrival, which
under date of Washington, August %:
The special correspondence to the Uorld from
Washington says it is openly asserted by emancipl-
ionists. that the long political struggle is drawing t.
close, and that the President, ovtrborne by the
,er,, l-,,,, rrnn Is, vrTli ,SG,a n n,r ,i-
ng freedom to all slaves, and this before the 18th of
september.
The Tri6une's Washington correspondent, says,
Justice to all parties it seems proper to state the
blowing, which we learn from SO many sources that
cannot longer be considered a State secret Two or
hree weeks ago, the President laid before the Cabinet
proclamation of emancipation, abolishing slavery
II the first of next December if the rebellion should
ot be crushed before. He asked the opinion of his
,abinet, touching the ~propriety of issuing it. Secre-
Smith, We believe, was absent. OF the others
II but two approved. Messrs. Seward and Blair
pposed it with all their might, with what result 1t
id not appear. 1t is understood that the subject
up in more than one Cabinet meeting, but
eward and Blair remained resolute in their opposi-
on.
Some may argue that the constitution gives
o right to the President to intermeddle with
avery. Very true, had there been no rebellion.
o the constitution gives the rebels no right TO
volt. Whatever right the President may OBJ
lin he will receive constitutionally. The con-
.catiOn act proclaims that a rebellion exists,
nd offers an amnesty but beyond the limits set
Y that act, all who are still found in rebellion,
forfeit their rights and property as rebeIS or
ait0rs, and, as nearly all the Shareholders are
that class, nearly all their slaves, as well as
/ their other property personal or real, must
vert to the government, which can do with its
yn property as it may please, and as it has
me in the District of Columbia. This is the
'ound on which the proclamation Will probably
based the voluntary forfeiture of the pro-
of shareholders by the act of open rebel {
IN, and the right of government TO liberate the
which revert 10 it. T
Not only in America is public sentiment t
angling on this great question of slavery, but I
Europe also we see signs quite as unmis-
The two volumes Of Count Gasparin L
eak the language of soberness and truth, and c
II 20 far towards giving a correct view of the r
ues at stake in this great civil contest. We I
We just observed another sign oC no less sisni- |
lnce. 1t is the pastoral letter of the Arch t
shop Of Orleans in France, which indicates \
: view taken of the civil war by the Catholic n
urch. This document is written in such 4 +
dial and earnest style, and breathes such an d
lngelical spirit, that we cannot forbear insert Il
it in full, even at the risk of being tedious -
our readers:
AND Co-WoRKERs: You seldom allow II
far distant echoes Of foreign politics TO reach n