New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-16
EMANCIPATION IN WARRINGTON.
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breathe freer now for the act giving liberty to 1900
slaves has received Congressional sanction. Yet, let
them not be entirely joyful for much of its saving
power is gone, on account of the Executive seal
being 20 long withheld. For this lie the Senate re-
sponsiblc, ia whose hand, the bill ttill fingers.
To-day has beena holiday vocal with praises and
halleluahs from the bond who look toward to-
morrow with hope; yet has it been also cad day,
full of tears and aching hearts and terrible pa t.
ings forever, because the indoent Senate-msy
not say the recreant Senate did not hold q session
yesterday, and finish the good work they began, by
sending the aw to the President, and asking him to
give il life on tho aopiyersary Of Sumter, And so
the haif-born blessing which nigh: have sprung de-
family TO it, feet, ard carried balm to thousand
hearts and homes, Is nothing but dead parchment on
the Senatorial table. Its voice should have rang
through this Capital Ike q trumpe'-b'as, yesterday;
but suppose the clsrh dainty fingers tucked the
charter under the pibh-taPe girlh on Friday night,
as oomposedIy ss if human hopes and human lives
Were not bound up Ill L.
{ For it must bo understood. during the thee DAYS
aud nights that capse before it can be approved aud
unclaimed, the red-hauded kidnaIpers arc driving
/ ther business with energy. The number to whom
tie boon Of freedom viii finally come il diminshine
every hour. Tie hirelinss Of Slavery art seeking
inost afiduoUsly for the wIeiched beln2s whon ht-
cFy is go near, parlors and kitchens and gsrciS IN
hoois and streets, in alleys and byplscee WHERE thry
fee for refuge, and ARE dragging them thence aud
carving them into Maryland. Much Of the internal
worL isdOuc in the night; and cneIgetcaly is the
trade Prosecuted tha! nearly all the -ayes who will
bring more than the stipulation in the bill $500 Will
! be taken away before II betomes 4 law. Tie Slave
Power. though weakened aud haupercd by the war,
seems % have lot none of IT, financial sageciy IL
wili make, once more, the same ' good bargain that
; Lac always distinguished is transactions, ard viii
cheat tic Government az usual. The slaves who
VIII r, naia TO De feed on TIL, sday, judging from
their Iresebt unwilling EXODUS, would not lfiug an
average o. 500, If sold al The acelon-biocs N Mary
laud. Yet is The barain good one, though the
slamiles value is agains' us flr 10 gcld c.n be an
e1aisa!cni for feeiom, and national selres,oct 10
forever without price.
In anticipation Of tho liter.y-day that seems 70
near 10 them the slaves ail the city, snd the
tree negroes, who are connected with them by the
ties Of kindred and sympathy, are dressed Ia their
best today lmany q them IN their tecfy bosi, 20 be
surei and sre assembled TO celebrate this Sabbath
Il day of praise aud Thanksgiving. I have talked
with seyeral " candidates thi, evening, from whom
I Gather that this Thanksgiving Day has been
ltepl ioyously in nearly all Of their seventeen
clnrches. There soems to have been preconcer
o,nong them. and the afternoon wGs devoted 20 love-
le,isis.
attended ,hs Bethel Church, near the Capitol,
this morning. The black clergy man preached "a
very good sermon from the text, II God be for us,
who can bo against u.s." to an audience Of 200 OF
900 OF his own people.
lie smoke Of the delyeranee Of Moses and th. cLil.
ircn Of Israel from bondage and by natural 'ron-
son. referred TO the condition Of tie slaves in Amer
lea and especially in this District. He thanked tie
Lord most fervently that hc rad been permitted 10
live TO zee this day 10 years ago he was tArred and
feubered in Washington because he would preach
the'Lofd Jesus as he understood IT, q" but now, A"
shouted tho sable speaker LEI Ethiopia lifr up her
hands 10 God for a great good is coming out Of this
war--a good for me, for us, and for our people
whom every nation has set ite heel upon!"
His audience was boisteronsy ioyoas, from the be-
ginning TO the end Of the discourse. OF o0ursc, the
expressions and demonstration. were extrayaggrt-
true 10 the quiol. fancy and !crVent hears q the
race Some rubbed their hands ia glee, some laughed
outright, some leaped up in the air or twisted them
selves into grotesquo attitudes, if their JOY was
TOO intense 10 be entertained at stad perpendicular;
manv shouted "Glory TO God !" " "lIalleislah -
" Amenw "The blessed day has come" Sci while
nearly NIL were in tears. When the speaker thanked
tie Lord that the slaves were 10 be free, tho jubilee
became utterly ndescribable. What Babel OF tai.
nnehanl voices! An old "aun,," oil in the right
hand upper corner shouted aud welt perfisieatly
Probably she had rea,cn for il, ihousht-perhals
two or three Of them, helpless aud in tho hands Of
Ito kidnaIpers. "Glory to God" saidihe preacher.
soemnly ard slowly. "Gloy TO LoyejoyW yelled
a ycico at the right that belonged TO a strongly
built mulatto. No. commanded the r. eai-
er instantly, 81 tell you glory TO Gc1 F'
for he seemed determined from tie iiiat
word that God should have the undivided praise, re-
fusng 10 give inocty 10 the President or CongIe''
pair Of hands clenched spasmodically tho top Of
the seat in which wss sitting. locked back and
The man was hopping up and down, aS IL he had
usi caught glimpse Of heaven, and prefen'iy inter-
rupted the SPEAKER BY trying 10 sing " am bound
for the laud Of Calann." Ills face bore deep scar
across the nose and tears were streaming from the
long furrows OF bis cheeks. lie had seen JO years.
perhaps, aud the light gray rags that he gathered
abou. hiIn told me that he bad "come out Of the
house Of bondage Most OF tho hearers were
onrtly white; many were muattoes, quadroons octo'
roons.- aud one or two women, / imagined, would
attract attention. for their good looks, in broadway
But what a day Of sunshine il was TO the sirckea
souls! They seemed to thiuk little Of the kidnaI-
per; they were full Of hope, and looked ahead snoh
chorus of exulta,ion 1 never heard before such