Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-11-06

ways acts according to the policy approved
by the constitutional advisers OF the Grown.
You would violate usage ouly if you should
act without the advice, or even contrary to
the opinions, of your constitutional advisers.
do not mean that you could continue to d2
this with prdpriety or even with safety; 1
merely assert that the power is, in point OF
fact, in your hands. Aud for such a pow.
er, what a responsibility to God and man!
It's within your power at this very mo1
ment not only to consummate an act OF en-
lightened statesmanship, but as the instru'
ment of the Almighty to restore TO freedom
race of men. II you are tempted by an
imperishable name it is within your reach.
We may look through ancient and modern
history, yet scarce find sovereign to whom
God offered the privilege Of bestowing on
Humanity boon so vast. sli -
Such an offer comes tUno1apssu teipg
twice. 1t is made to you to-day. How
long it will remain OPEN whether in three
months or in one mouth from now 1t will
still be at your option to accept it-6od,
who reads the hearts Of men, alone knows.
And this brings me to speak Of another
Class of dangers-those which may arise
here in the North, among ourselves.
Do you read the daily newspaper press,
dcx of the passing opinions Of the times?--
If so, have YOU not recently seen there
signs that startled you?--advics, audacious-
ly given to certain quarters, it is time the
army should take the power into its own
hands and demand the dismissal from your
Cabinet of the men in it? Have you no
facts in your own experience going to prove
that such audacity has not shown its head
without power and numbers that render it
formidable2 ] do not fear it; moi now, If it
is strangled at its birth. But he tempts
Providence who suffers that spirit Of anarchy
to grow and gather strength before striking
a blow for its destruction.
You cannot be ignorant Of the design Of
these men. He that runs may read it,
They see that we are drifting towards Eman-
cipation. They see that the demand from
the masses of our people for this great
measure is becoming. day by day, more i'm.
Fortunate. They know that a majority Of
your Cabinet favorit They feel assured, as
to yourself, that if the option remains with
you, it is but question of time and Of form
when and how Proclamation of Emancipa.
tion will be issued They perceive but one
power that has any chance successfully to
arrest this stream and coerce your action
Openly they appeal toit. Openly they de-
clare that Cabinet Ministers must be impo.
sed upon you by military dictations. Nc
other course is left them to effect their great
object, namely, to perpetuate among us that
Slavery which the nation, with determine
ito which increased from day to day, is re
solved to umoot. -t ... i,H Iii
One blow may be delt by you agains
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4 the foundation of peace, and assures, beyont
possible: e:peradventure, the downfall of thu
Rebellion. They know their danger They
read EMANCIPATION in all the signs Of tn,
times. 1t is to them the hand writing OF
the wall, foreshadowing their political fate
What wonder that they resort to desperate
means to arrest its advent u..
Shall they be allowed time, by insidious ar
gument, to entice the unwary into the rank
of sedition? By prompt action alone car
you prevent it. 1t is idle to await uuanim
ity. Men acquiesce in a thousand things
once righteously and boldly done, to which
find endless objections.
Do you hesitate? Will you delay tn,
blow? See to it, that when, at last you
resolution is taken, the power may not al
ready have passed away from your hands
The 23d Of September Apprenticeship
date when the sixty-days notice you have
given to the Rebels will expire-expire with
out other reply to your warning than tn
q invasion Of Maryland and a menace Il
Pennsylvania. l. it to rest there? Patient
ly we have waited the time. Is nothing t
follow2 Are our enemies to boast that W
speak brave words-and there an end of it
What day, if you but will it, may tina
: Dad OF September become The very turn
I ing point in the nations fate A day t
: the Rebels of despair, to every loyal hear
of cxul:ant rejoicing A day of which tn
| while the American Union endures A da
wherever Humanity mourns over the wrong
II You are the first President to whom th
9 opportunity was ever offered constitutions
j ly to inaugurate such day. II you fail I
now, you may be the last. Lift, then I'll
!! weight from the heart of this people. LII
I them breathe free once more. Extirpal
q the blighting curse, a living threat through
q out long years past that has smitten at la
u with desolation q land to which God hs
: granted everything but wisdom and justic
: Give back to the nation its Hope and Fai,
Q perity. Ful6ll--you can far more than iu
n fill-the brightest anticipations of tho
who, in the name OF Human Freedom, ar
"a in the face Of threats that have ripened in
nc terrible realities since, fought that bait
I'd I...', ROBERT DALE OWEN.
New York, Sept. II, 1852. sia
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