New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-06
LET Us Rave No NALT-DOING.
One of our conservative oracles thus ds
courses Of the fruits Of Emancipation rs
measu 10 OF National defense and safety

svoTi'e yumen, with that paper Poiil snG wi'h
TuK TRIBUNE mo. tie Government has failed to Zeal ter
rire misry blow tie rebellion BY not issuing genera
pre- ION eaauC psills This Ia tins burden Of
;ae rsGcs, complain, dsj day They ssy that
zach pfoc-iusiou srued tie slaves oud nae sld the
Rebels would .diey nd lIe 10 their more appalling
asu tlc AIMED ons Of The North IN ffent This very
pretty Il ory but uabspriy the fscs ali he other
According 20 TIE Pat Cen Hunters order ffeeirs the
,,. ia South Carolina Georgia and Florida as been
in ooe ncIiy months. So sr proclamation could
slave to-day Ia any % those Slate
-, h.o tie fge In tn, Rebel. r-sl she 'layr fug,
;be .Eodr. OF tie whole slave population to
i've. There {. to-dsy 81 gle child
f. 5ecsufe OF this four montA,, emancipation order
Nor has given soeTy military success GA The con
trsry ever hir hs gone hnco that ofir Issued
We ,eIs shsns'uiy beaten 1t James lslaad and Gen.
Hunter la. been PEELED to surrender two thirds OF the
ground by ecu Sherman. Such 10 the history Of sn
esac pstion order il tho Department OF the South Gen
Frsnoat'.. IN Missouri, and Gen. Phelps, in LOli'isn,,
equally vain aud unpsohtsb."
The above impels US to say that if what
has been done in Missouri and in South Caro-
lima the President promptly aud emphatically
repudiating and annulliDg the decree OF the
Commanding Generals to be- termed an
emancipatng policy, we trust there will be no
further experiments in That direction. Such
an exhibition Of cross-purposes only distracts
and weakens the best efforts for me Union
cause. Either let US have frank, decided,
ayowed, thorough Emancipation policy, o. let
us have nothing of the sort. And let US have
this policy proclaimed and inauguratcd, II ever,
before the Republic shall have The dea,h-rattle
in its throat. To hold back till the cause ID
hopelessly lost, and then proclaim Emarcipa-
tion will but add insult to injury.
When Congress passed the Confscaton act,
six or eight weeks ago, fully half the State Of
Virginia was in Union hands. Before Rich
mond, a. Fredericksburg, at Winchester, at
erng traitors. Tennessee was mainly, and
Kentucky wholly in Union bands. One OF our
armies had recently completed triumphai pro-
cession throughout the Northern halt Of Arkan-
sas, and hated on tho Mississippi within the
Limits of that State, with nOLo TO modest or
make it afraid A very few Rebels-IDaln-
~ rse-.h.eyes--dared show their faces, par
t.cularly in Missouri. Our fleets rode the length
Of the Mississippi, and were resisted only at
Nicksburg. Baton Rouge was firmly held by
| nion column, 40 that, when stronger Eobel
force had deliberately aud desperately assnied
it, GTandlloquent Rebel bulletin announced
that .he movement "wss not complete sue
cess coming short Of it by tie circumstance
that the assautihg traitors ran ten miles before
they came TO a halt, their leader losing his
sword, and leaving his second IN command a
prisoner IN our hands. On the whole, we con-
slider that candid statement that tho attack on
Baton Rouge was mot l. complete success fully
justified by the facts. We may safely cay that
it was rather within the truth.
Had the President seen fit TO issue forth
with proclamation, reciting the emancipaiing
provisions of the COuGscation Act and calling
upon every UniOnst held in bondage by trai.
tor to make bis way At tho earliest uoneat to