The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-11-05

roach We may look through ancient aud
modern history, vet scarce find sovereign
10 whom God offered the privilege OF he.
slowing on Humanity a boon SO vast.
Such an offer comes to no human being
twice 1t is made to YOU to-day. How long
it will remain open whether in three
months or IN one month from now-it will
still be at your option 10 accept il. God.
/ who reads the hearts of men, alone knows.
And this brings me to speak of another
class o' dangers - those which may arise
here in the North, among ourselves.
De You read the daily newspaper press,
| tmt wonderful and Instructive modern i'm.
dcN ot the passing opinions of the tines
II 80 have you not recently seen there
signs that startled YOU? -n advice. auda.
ciously given il certain quarters, that it is
tnc the army should take tic power into
its own hands and demand the dismissal
from your Cabinet Of the best men it Have
you no iacts in your own experience going
to prove rhdt such audacity has not shown
its head without power aud numbers that
rcnduy it formidable? | do not fear it not
now il it is strauglcl at its birth. But he
tcmpts Providence who suffers that of an
ar,hy to grow and gather strength before
striking blow tor its destruction.
You can not he ignorant of the design OF
these men. lie that runs may read il. They
see that we are dlitiug toward Emaucipa-
ton. They see that the demand from the
masses of our people tor this great measure
Is becoming, day 10y day, more lmpurtuuatC.
They know that majority of your Cabinet
favor II. They feel assured, as To yourself,
that 1t the option remain with YOU, it is but
u question oi time and form when aud how
II Proclamation ot Emancipation will H. is.
sued. They perceive hut one power that
has any chance successfully TO arrest tins
stream and cocrcc Your action. Openly
they appeal to it. Openly they declare
that Cabinet Ministers must be imposed
upon you 10y military dictatun. No other
course is lett them To effect their great ob.
lect namely, to perpctuatc among us that
slavery whlch the nation, with dctermi-
nation which increases from day to day, il
resolved to nprout
Ouc blow may hc dealt by YOU against
these men that will crush, for ever. their
reasonable caDais. 1t IL tue same that
lays the foundation OF peace. and assures.
beyond possible pcralvcnturc, the down
tall OF the rebellion. They know their
danger. They read Emancipation in all thc
s,gna of the times. II is to lhum the hand
writing on the wall, iurcshadowing their
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sort to desperate means to arrest its adj
vent?
Shall they b. allowed time, by insidious
| argument to cnticc the uuwarv into the
ranks OF sedltiou? by prompt action alone
can yOuprcVcutIt ltis idle to await uuan-
unity. Men acquescG in Il thousand things.
once righteously and boldly done, to which.
A., ii proposed to them III advance, they might
iiud ouiicsS objections.
Do you hesitate? win YOU delay the
blow? See to it, that when, at last, your
resolution is taken, the power may not al
ready have passed away from your hands.
The 23d Of September approaches -- the
date when the siNty-day notice you have
given to the Rebels will expire - expire
without other reply TO your warning than
the invasion of Maryland aud u menace to
| Pennsylvania. Is it to rest there? Pa
! tiently we have waited the time. Is moth
! ing to follow? Are our enemies to boast
| that we speak brave words -- and there an
end of it?
What day, if you just will it, may that
23d OF September become The very turn
ing point in the aation's fate A day to
the rebels ot despair, To every loyal heart,
of cXultaut rejoicing! A day of which the
anniversary will be celebrated with jubilee
Wine tNt american llllOn tluUfeS. y udN
to be remembered not in our land alone
b0t whenever Humanity mourus over the
wrongs Of the slave, or rcioices in his lib
crutionl
lou are the first President to whom the
opportunity was ever offered constitutions
ally to iuauguratc such day. If you fail
MS Tow, you may be the last. Iilt, then,
the weight from the heart of this people.
Let them breathe free once more. EXtir-
pate the bIightng curse, living threat
throus houI long years past, that has smit
ten at last with desalation Il land to which
God had granted everything but wisdom
ana justice. Give back to the nation its
Hope aud Faith in Future of Peace and
undistUrbed Prosperity Fulhll-ynu can
Tar more than fulfill - the brightest antic.
patton of those who, in the name of Human
Freedom, and in the face ol threats that
have upcncl into terrible realities since,
fought that battle which placed you where
you now stand.
ROBERT DALE OWEN.
New York, sept Il, 1862.