Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-03-22
Tho Presldenps Emancipation Message.
BT noRAcE GREELEY.

No other document ever issued from the
White House equals in interest and i'm.
portance the brief aud modest Message
transmitted by President Lincoln last
Thursday to Congress, recommending the
passage of juiut resolve proifering peeuni
rid themselves of Slavery. And he will
probably live long who even in this event.
ful age reads another paper Of equal moment
subscribed by President of the United
Sales.
That there are some will regard the
Presidents proposition as timid, inadequate,
aud huting, is to be expected. 1t seems
10 them so easy us " ell as just to abolish
Slavery utterly and ut once by simple
edict that they have no patience with pru.
dent courses aud halfway measures But
The practical statesman must often choose
between tie desirable aud the attainablr,
aud may cause the shadow to Iecede OH
the dial of uumun Progress by attempting
too much us truly as attempting nothing.
Were the American People or even those
Of the Free States, this day unanimously
.mpelled 10y consciousness OF their utter
nhumanity aud atIOcIty VI 'he slaveholdlng
system, It's natural and necessary procliVlty
TO all forms aud phases Of evil aud wrong,
the suhilcL would be freed from many em
barrussmelus. But, quite upart from the
resistance Of the Shareholders themselves,
and OF the great mass Of the ignorant ana
blindly PICTURED Poor Whites OF lhe Slave
States, We all sadly real 70 he indifference
or hostility of large portion Of the people
even OF the Free States 10 what they have
| been trained to abhor aud eXerrute us Abo
ht!on
There is scarcely besotted, vicedegrad
ed, worthless White in the Uu.on VINO does
not instIncIively and vociferiously oppose
Emancipation AS reducing the White man
to The level OF the Negro"-as if it were
possible 10 reduce such as himself to lhe lev.
ei Of any vrtuUus aud well behaved human
being. This Iepugnance 10 impartial laws
anu truly democratic Institutions is the prin.
clpul stock in trade Of our most unpriuclpled
aud vulgar demagogue-the craft whereby
tHey maintain influence aud secure position.
"Woud you let your daughter marry a
negro p is theirs standing response to every
demonstration of the impolicy as well as in
justice Of tramping on The God gwen right,
Of a whole race-as though one mans tastes
however correct, could be any measure OF
another'S rights. Probably one.thlrd, nu
merically, OF the people even of the f &c
States including many who. when pressed
in argument, declare themselves las much
opposed to Slavery as anybody" are even
yet hostile or indifferent to Emancipation,
though the growth of humauer sentiment
has Of late, aud especially during the last
year, been healthy and vigorous. This re.
pugence of so large a minority, often i'm
PEELED by the most sordid party aims even
when clothing itself under an affected zeal
for constitutional guarantees is an imped'
ing embarrassing force which no Govern
nent could afford utte ly to disregard.
Hetit is Deyerl helesS true that he prev
alent feeling of the great body OF our Gov
ernmeul's earnest and ardent supporters, uE
to the hour wherein this Message burst up
on them, condemed the policy OF the admin
islralon as feeble and hesilaling. us ii
not Slavery-nothing but Slavery-that
seeks to reud and ruin the Republic p ask
ed thousands of impatient patriots "anc
il it is, what use in being deaf or blind, OF
even dumb, TO the vital fact The Nation;
deadly foe is not afraid to speak out why
should not the Nation as frankly respond
Since the Rebels boldly avow that theirs j.
u war for Slavery, why is it that no EXecn
tive utterance recognizes ours as struggle
Ton Liberty 7 Our friends in Europe, WhC
have been greatly embarrassed and impedeC
by the impudeut denials of Yancey aud 9th
CT Confederate emiSsaries Of the Pro-Slave
ry character of their rebelIion-denials pre-
ciSely opposite in tone 10 the harangues by
which they drove their followers iuto lrea
son--haye most keenly felt aud bitterly
deplored his relcence.
The Message Of President Lincoln, pro
posing distinctly to pro1er pecuniary aid t
such States as may see fit TO "luitiate Emau
cipalion." sileuces thousand cavals aud re
moves many obstacles. Henceforlh, NJ
European Power will dream of interfering
in behalf of the Rebels Heneeiorlb, NJ
traitor emssary eau dupe even the leas
informed and most credulous European ~
TO a sincere belief that the Nation aud th
Rebels occ0py common ground with regar'
to Slavery. Henceforth, the reluctant anl
nsincere protfers of meliorating aud eve
ultimately abandoning the Internal systeE
which des speralon has Induced the traito
enVoys to whisper in the ears Of Europea
po'entates, will be coldly heard aud dis
coursgingly responded TO. Hencefort
whatever disaster may befall Us, that of
shameful and ruinous Compromise woul
seem TO be for ever averled.
Have we waited long for this sorely neeC
ded demonstration Has our govrnmen
; hilherty seemed blind to the fact that il ha