The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-07-26

PRESIDENT LINCOLN has at lenght pro-
mulgated an order defining the "policy"
of the administration in reference to seiz-
ing rebel property and disposing of the
everlasting negro. The substance of it is,
that retel property is to be taken by our
armies Except in the loyal border slaYe
states) and On account kept of it, so that
if the man whose property is taken shall
be able, at the end of the war, to prove
thst, from the time of tho issuing of the
order, he had deported himself as loyal
citizen, he may receive compensation; and
that negroes are only to be taken as com.
manders may find use for them as labor
ers.
No unreasonable man can find fault
with this policy. The effect doubtless will
be, that, whenever our army enter a sec
ession region, most of the wealthy people
will be found Union men, aud If their
property is seized, whatever its value, it
will be in that amount equivalent to bond
for their continuance as loyal men to the
end Of the war. The order seems admira.
bly, adapted tn raise up and keep" in lint"
band Of Union men in the seeded
states.
The negro order. also, is unobjectionable.
Thestrepgth ofthe confederacy, at present,
lies in their able-bodied negroes Thsse
remaining at home and working their
plantations release all the able bodied
whites SO join the army By seizing these
negroes and putting them to work teams.
tiers, cooks, hospital nurses or laborers in
the trenches, the south must either release
white men from the conception to take
the place of the negroes in the field, or
starve. At the same time the efecty Of
the order will not be to burden the
Union with the support of thousands of
of decrepit and inform negroes women and
children, as it only contemplates taking
the able bodied
The Presidential "Policy" thus an
nounced is exactly the opposite Of that Of
the rabid abolitionists, whose cry has
been for immediate and indiscr;minate
con6scation of all rebel property, and the
seizure and emancipation of all their
negroes, not only IN the seeded, but in
the loyal border slave States. The an
nounoemsnt Of such . policy would at
once unite al the slave States against the
north - one man, and the war between
them could only end in the determination
or total exhaustion Of one or the other.
| We suhjoin a copy of the Presidents
order:
| wAR D,PAHIxrss,
wAssnesox. July -. 1861.
Ist Ordered, That military commanders
within the States of Virginia, South Caro-.
lima, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississip-
pi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, in an
orderly manner sieze aud use any property
real or personal, which may be necessary
or convenient for their several commands,
| for supplies or for other military objects,
and that while property may be destroyed
| for proper military objects, mono shall be
destroyed in waDtonness or malice
I'd. Ordered, That military and naval
commanders shall employ. as laborers
within and from said States, as many per-
sons of African descent as can be advan-
taeeously used for military and naval pur.
poses, giving them reasonable wages for
their labor. Z.
3d. ordered, That as to both property
and persons Of African descent accounts
! shall be kept sufficiently accurate and in
detail to show quantities and amounts,
and from whom both property and such
persons. shall have come, rs . basis on
which compensation can be made in pro-
per cases, and the several departments OF
this Government shall attend to and
perform their appropriate l.arts toward
! the execution of these orders.
By order of the President q
a EDwix ID. STATION. 81
Secretary Of x.r