The national Republican., 1862-07-31
Thursday, July 81, 1862.
Baitim re Dsmaads that all the Slaves
Of Rebels Shall be Freed.

Baitimy re Dsmasds that All the Slaves
OF Rebels shall be Freed.
We referred yesterday to the great meeting
on Monday evening In Monument Square Of
the loyal citizens Of Baltimore, said by the
Clipper to he the largest meeting held In that
city. or the fifth resolution, we copied an ac.
count from the stor. We now publish the re-
solution itself, which was adopted unanimous.
", and which goes much further than we had
been led to suppose:
"Resolued, That while oonnsca,ion and sman.
cips,ion Of tho property and slaves Of rebels
may not be an efficient means OF suppressing
the rebe. lion, they are essential to cripple the
power Of those nov in arms TO embsrrxss the
restoration Of peaceful and constitutional gov
ernmsnt after their military power 10 broken;
and therefore We heartily approve Of the poll
of tho rebellion. and declaring the slaves of
every rebel free from all obligation to obey
those who refuse TO obey the laws Of the land.'
This resolution sets out the great truth, that
while the national armies must first conquer
avail, so long as the rebels are left 10 posses
sian Of the means Of fresh revolts II Is "es-
sential to cripple the power" Of our enemies
by taking away their slaves, before there can
be any real restoration Of peaceful and consti-
tu,ional government" Without this great re.
medal measure, the march of our armies
through the hostile country at the South, makes
40 more Impression, as has been we'll said,
than the passage ofa vessel through the waves
Of the ocean. The loyal people Of Baltimore
have had too many illustrations OF this truth,
10 have any doubt about It. They have seen
General Curtis marching through the whole
breadth Of Arkansas, winning bloody and glo
rious victories, aud, after all, leaving the State
behind him, ~ completely unsubdued as the
day On which he entered it. And they now
hear, day after day, of the results of the at
tempted occupation Of another portion of the
snuthwest, uDon the same policy which was
forced upon Gen. Cartis They see that the
whole advaGce Of Gen. Hallsek into Mississip.
pi and A ALBANIA, under the banner of Order
No. 3" is proving to be Q mplete abortion.
Z. this sort Of experimenting, and they there.
fore declare that 1t Ia Essential to cripple the
power of our euemies," by taking away the
e-ments which constitute 1t.
Ia announcing, as the loyal people Of Balti.
more do, that they heartily approve Of the
policy of declaring the slaves of every rebel
free from all obligation to obey those ,oho refuse
10 obsy III. la,os Of n, lard.' they ar rnounce q
graf legal. moral, and political truth. Trea
500 does, ipso fIcto, dissolve the relation of
master and slave, aud II We had courts which
Won enforce the law, it would be 90 ad.
judged. When G n Fremont declared year
ago, in that proclamation which will immor
tsl ss him in history, that the slaves Of all
rebels in Missouri should be free, he really
ouly declared an existing legal principle.
which will stand the "test of talent and of
time" We cordially approved that proclama
ton when t was issued, and have never ceasel
to do So from that day to this. We have not
one sipgl. doubt that this war would have
been ended long ago, If that glorious procla,
mstion had not been abrogstsd by the Presi.
dent !! never eau be ended upon any other
principles, and We rejoice, with exceeding Joy,
TO nld them endorsed by the legal people of
Baltimore.
Freedom to every slave Of a rebel who can
escape into our lines! Freedom to every slave
OF rebel whom we can reach, or who can
reach us! These principles are now, at last,
embodied in the legislation Of the country,
and will asver he rscsded from. They are
everywhere approved by loyal people, and
nowhere more cordially than among the loyal
people of the border slave Ststes. All the as
sertions which were made to the contrary, and
By which it was attempted to intimldate q pa.
trotic Congress from doing Its duty, were
false. The event everywhere proves them 40.
Thi, noble response from the loyal men of the
great city OF Baltimore proves them 70.