Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-11
NUMBER 1877.

IS gradual and voluntary emancipation
WnlGh clearly recognizes the sovereignty
OF the States over their own domestic in.
sututions, and merely offers them assis-
lance to tcaTy cut emancipation IF they
should deem it desirable. :.
Ihe policy of the abolitionists would be
destructive; that OF the President ia he
SSign. IL looks only to the border slave
S'ates Tor they alone would be willing to
aSeePt the proposition. In the cotton
oEa!es the slave institution is regarded as
ehhreIy superior to that of free labor. In
the border States there is O difference oF
opinion on the subject; for the climate
unlike the extreme South, is favorable TO
tho labors of the white man; and wher-
ever that is the case slavery necessarily
ates out, because it will no longer pay.E
y was for that reason alone that all the
Northern States got rid of it and were it
not for the tanaticism of the abolitionists
creating a spirit of antagonism in the slave
states, there would not be slave in Mary
land, Missouri, Virginia or Kentucky to-
day. In those States free labor payS bet
ter slan slave labor, and when the war is
ended 1t is extremely probable that those
states will deliberately abolish slavery
and accept the aid proposed in SIR. Lin
coins message.
lFF0uI the philadelphia North American-modcrate
Republican,
Tha message of the President, advocat-
ing tender of aid to the States in the re-
moVal of slavery, is a most important
event. 1t opens new cru, that of amelio-
ration and PacifcatiOn within the south it,
SELL and IN all the processes of this ameli-
oration the United States offers such aid as
II has power to give 1t is not supposed
oy the President that great changes will
Immediately result, or that moro than two
or three OF tue States, at most, are likely
now to accept the tender he proposes TO
make. Possibly no State would do SO i'm
mcdiately If the opportunity should be Of
tered but the great fact, important above
all other events in general policy, is that
every southern State is told that as a Ioyal
member Of the Union it has a recognized
claim on the assistance of the general gov.
ernmens In tue removal of slavery. Not
by the assumption of any unusual powers,
nor ny the least act to which loyal citizeus
can anywhere take exception, but in lib
eral and comprehensive spirit Ofprovision
fer the generslweIfare this position is now
deliberately taken.
Prom the Utica IIerald-straight Republican,
Abraham Lincoln has struck the popular
chord. He has proved that he knows the
cause Of the rebellion. He seeks 10 have
1t removed. Since the Government was
formed, no other suggestion has come from
the Executive than that made yesterday
by him to Congress, for declaration in
favor of the gradual emancipation of slaves.
That message will of itself secure Abra-
ham Lincoln the proudest rank among
American statesmen. 1t will arouse en-
thustasm in the popular breast in his favor.
1t is an assurance that whatever schemes
Tor again subiecting the Republic to tho
rule OF slavery may be on foot, they have
no sympathy from Abraham Lincoln. He
moves slowly. but his steps all tend IN the
right direction. If any doubted before.
let this message prove that he is the man
fitted to hold the helm of State in this