The national Republican., 1862-08-20
HOW 1T WORKS.

1t 10 frequently said that offers Of liberty to
the slaves In the seeded States, whether made
by Congress, OF BY the President, a. IN induce
ment to them 70 join the national cause cas
BE- OF no avail h repre~ing this rebsaiion, BE-
cause we must frst conquer The rebeis and %
cupy their country, before the negroes can
reach us, and before we can reach them with
our paper proclamations.' But In truth, we
have actually penetrated rebeidoa q ANY
points, a. in Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Louisiana and the northern parts Of Alabama
aud Mississippi We are In the very midst Of
the ensmy's slaves, and II depends upon our rown
will and pleasure, whether We shall repel their
aid, or accept It. or invite II. II II was really
necessary to conquer the rebels before taking
away their slaves, we never could conquer
them. They are inviucible BY the aid Of the
great extent Of territory which they occupy, 90
long as they have the labor d four millions Of
bondsmen to subsist upon. A sufficiently long
experience has demonstrated that, and indeed
II was so indicated by all seuud reasoning and
BY all historical preoedsnts, that II ought to
have been foreseen without trial Of It. But
we can penetrate their country by our armies,
and having done so. we can conquer them by
taking away the r,gh, arm Of their strength,
their negroes. II is not true that their slaves
are beyond our reach. They have been %
completely Within our reach ever since this
war began, that the pro.slsvery policy Of our
generals could not be made effectual, without
actually repelling, driving of aud delivering
up 70 rebel masters. the slaves who escaped to
us. And now that this policy has been at last
changed by the popular voice speaking through
the legislation OF Congress, they are coming TO
us everywhere, although the knowledge Of this
legislation has just reached them and only
through circuitous channels and under clrcum.
stances we'll calculated to excite their distrust.
II the President would proclaim this legislstisn
In public orders to the army, rs we believe II
10 his clear duty to do, ten negroes would come
to US, where one does now. But even without
any proclamation from the President, enough
has already happened to satisfy the country
that the enactments Of Congress are not " pa
per" snsotments, but practical and efacien,
remedies for the mischief with which We have
to dea,
In sngis newspaper which We happen tc
have before Us, we nnd accounts Of two stam-
psdss Of negroes into our lines, one at Fred
ericksburg, Va, and one q. New Orleans. snt
Of continuous escapes OF negroes il,o our linei
at Corinth. Miss.
In the Fredericksburg case, the qusndAu
slaves, now emsncipstsd by law, came ladsi
with the "spoiI. Of the Egyptians" in the shap,
Of their late masters carriages, horses aut
mules.
In the New Orleans cass. Que hundred snt
dfty slaves osue up In q body fron plantations
below the city. Their entrance Into the city
was, to be sure. resisted by q proslsvery
police, resulting in serious collision. but this
only shows that the aots Of Congress are not
enforced. II does not show that they might
moi be enforced, or that they will not be.
FROM CORINTH.
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette
CoRINra. Miss, Aug. ..
tho connscation act should 20 speedily be made
known to the contrabands that dwell at this
distance from the national capital. But then,
some Of MS are SUI prised at the amount Of in.
teiligence which many slaves In this region
posssss. They talk with as much eleganos, =,
many OF them, a. the whites. One OF them
said, on being questioned about how he oams
to learn to talk 80 well, that his master always
corrected him when he used an improper
word. Slaves Of this class constitute the ma.
jority Of those now coming into our lines. And
they are coming by scores. Every morning.
the picksts, when they are relieved, bring In
all they have collected during the twenty four
hours. So far N ! know, there has been no
order providing for their employment, but they
are left to fnd 1t wherever they can. Very
soon we will be some Thousands stronger, by
the mere calling In Of our extra duty" men,
tsamsters, 30. Oficers and messss will doubt.
less be we'll supplied with good cooks.
asked one intelligent oontraband about
into our lines. He answered that the slaves
were being rapidly, and In large numbers,
shipped down South--a fate which they seem
10 dread here As much ~ In the more northern
Slave States. He says that thoy have never
had such fav0rs shown them ~ during the las,
few months. Their masters have been lavish
of promises, especially, "but," says he, "while
| they are promising all these great things to us
they are At the same time taking us Oh South,
and we just concluded now was the time for us
to strike"
That chorus Of New England's warm. hearted
poet, begun Ut Port Royal, will soon swell into
y universal pean Of joy:
De yam will grow, de cotton blow,
Wen hab de rice and oorn;
SO nebber you fear II nebber you hear
De driber blow hia horn