Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-10-02

ttlat mas Calle1 ~ IDrLns We iHtTh VH Tue
war into periods when some new exigency
it has manifested il with unexpected power.
1t began with the tall Of Sumter, when
treason faded away like darkness before the
light. The Proclamation OF Emancipation
Union as il should be will date from the
day of its consummation.
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
tFron The Philadelphia pIe.s--Dpusls, papotJ
The rebellion is at an end The Presi.
dent has done a,gnod deed. at good time.
He has pronounced the tvlxH 81 Slavery on
the American Continent After dallying
with this great sin, because he dreaded to
do violence to the interests and wishes OF
any portion of the people, he has accepted
the lesson Of experience, aud ends the war
BY putting an end to the cause Of the war.
If this rebellion has taught US anything, il
is that by slavery we have been defeated ia
our national progress--by slavery the rich.
est and fairest portions OF our Republic have
been kept desert and wildcrness--by
slavery great part Of the people have been
estranged from one another--by slavery our
institutions have been prevented from de.
velopiug the blessings our fathers intended
they should bestow. Slavery has been the
perpetual disgrace to the American name.
Slavery has bloomed into sedition and ripen
ed into war. Why should it livep 1t has
menaeed our dearest rights, and has robbed
US OF our dearest kindred This fearful
monster, INTERVIEWING itself around the vitals
of the Republic. retarding its growth, des
troying its usefulness, making its very exis
tence wretched, at last sought to take the
lite which had nourisbed it, and to rend the
bosom on which /, had grown, In set-de.
fence we have wrestled in its embraces
wrestlcd in blood, war, carnage, desolatiou
and saughter--and all in vain. This strug
gle il now for life or DEATH Ii slavery live:
the Republic dies. The Republic must live
ing of the Presidents proclamation, and his
words record slavery's inevitable doom.
President Lincoln has followed the logica
course Of events in issuing this proclamation
He has neither been too soon nor too late
He had multitude of interests to consult
all o! which involved tho social, commercial
and political happiness of our people. HI
found the institution Of slavery sustaining
great agricultural interest in many States OF
the Union. Cotton, sugar, rice. tobacco
and other staples, seemed to live upon it
, labor, and vast European and American en-
terprise on its preservation. The hamlet
of Lancashire-the counting -roome of New
!, York-the looms Of France to the utter
!, most ends Of the earth-in India and Aus
: tralia--the vafety OF che coteoH'crop aad tn
j protection Of cotton labor were matters oil
comfort and necessity, raiulent and bread
1t was not an easy thing to proclaim decree
, so universal in its application, and 30 radica
and even disastrous in its operation Ant
, to the honor OF President Lincoln he it said
that he did not make this proclamation un
! til the masters Of the cotton crop and cottol
! labor compelled him to do so by their trea
son aud violence. Slavery might have pass
. ed away in its own good time, under tn
. gentle influence OF beniicent free institu
! tons, and the world would not have fel
= the change. They grasped at universal EN-
i pire and sought to overthrow flee Repub
E lie, that Republic with slavery for its col
: ner stone might be erQcted on its foundations
:, How much they have done to accomplish
= this wild and terrible design, the drealfu
experiences of the past two years--iho bloc
. that has been shed-th devastation tha
- has been inhicted--the genera ruin that hs
. everywhere cxtended-a,d the sad hi,tor
- these days are creating will testify. Ths
= history is at an end. The President turn
q a now leaf, and at the head of tho pag
If wrltes,-Emonetpahon. A..
h ne mas wI..en emanopa,iotI, u;n anu 'nIl
e II WIN ias. toreVer .ilou.e 20 ny o"a WIZ
statesmanshtp ano n sne Iortltuue oi q
a.? American people. hne pat.ence anu sen
n deniai we nave inahiIesleo ifom Ihe oegll
It Mug, 10 nghtlng tnis Waf WIN smaller Weal
9 ons, wni!e the grea. eng'ue Vi deatn s'i,l II
y nial1eu III she atscna': mIss Ioleser W
u self DENYING before, let US be active, Wig
" liant, and unrelentiug now. Ifany one eve
20 dreamed that out of this chaos Of war an
y destruction peace might suddenly come as
a. compromise, or by submission. lot him di
:. = miss it from his brain like an idle drea
that it was. This proclamation Of the Pres
|. dent onds the rebellion. 1t will not do
l. l. to-day, or even Tomorrow, but it will Ell
~ in very short time, and in very summal
!, manner. We are now putting the axe
10 10 the root; heretofore we have contented ou
of selves with trimming the boughs, and breal
70 "a ing the branches, forgetting that new Ii
h. h. was constantly oozing From tts soil.
"a does not come as wild exhibition Of de
70 70 pair, nor as mere effort to rouse drool
~ !, ing public sentiment or rally beaten and di
a., hearteued columns. 1t the manifestatit
m as of the Northern power; it is the result {
% o,,o,uh al,p;po victoriest We have shov