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

paying loyal citizeus who may be deprived
Of slave property by acts Of the United
States Government the fall value Of such
property Is there anything needless, in
discriminate, irrational, fsnitical, in this
He declares in favor Of the policy Of col
onization, having no disposition 10 allow the
eniancipsted negroes to be thrust upon un.
willing communities. IF the people Of the
United States desire to pay for the expor.
tation Of black laborers, there is no doubt
tue President is ready TO Accommodate them
by seconding their wishes; and be is now
looking out for eligible places for colonies of
emancipated negroes. Id. E.
And what is that the President proposes
to do on the first Of January? Does ho
propose TO use military power to make the
negro the equal Of the white man. as the
dirtiest slass Of demsgognes viii assume 7
Dies he propose to make the war fight
All that any rebsl State has To do this
day to come into the Union with all her con.
stitutionsl rights unimpaired--w full
power TO control her local and domestic af-
fairs (nclu1ing the slavery question: subject
only to the limitations upon provincial gov
ernmeLt of the Constitution Of United.
States--is to acknowledge the authority of
resentatiyes to Congress And if, after the
hundred days warning. the rebels still hold
out aud make war upon the loyal people Of
the nation, it is to be proclaimed that the
relation of slavery is not to be recognized
in the States and parts Of States, in rebel
lion. The endeavors OF the negroes them
selves TO become freemen, will not be re-
pressed by the national troops, but they
will be countenanced aud supported in the
attempts they may make to dissolve the
servile relation which they bear to their
masters. II loyal man loses slaves be is
to be paid for them. II a rebel loses slaves
there is an end of it. The slaves are not
to be elevated BY any artificial process.--
The weight Of the United States authority
is to be removed from their shoulders, and
they are to be allowed to fight for them
selves. 4 ..-
| We do not perceive that any friend Of bis
country has right to be displeased or
alarmed at this policy-the announcement
Of which has all along been q question Of
time and expediency, question which 1t
would be worse than useless now to discuss.
1t has been apparent from the first OF the
war, that if the rebels carried il TO an ex-
tremity, their pet institution-their corner
stone" as their Vice President called it
would be destroyed. They now receive fair
warning, that in little more than three
months the Government will promote rath.
er than interfere with that destruction,
which clear headed men the world over have
seen was the logical result Of the rebellion
We gladly publish the following letter
believing that, in its hearty response to tn,
/ Proclamation Of the President. il speaks th,
sentiment of oflhousands Of loyal Democrat,
with whom its author has hitherto acted
IN. 7. Tribune.
10 the Editor of the NJ Y T15une-SR
God bless Abraham Lincoln i'-lTRI
BUNE Editorial, Sept %, 1862.
Amen, with all my heart "And let al
the people say Amen while humanity ant
religion take up the Invocation and join il
the supplicatcd good. God bless The Tai
BUNE, too, for its persistent denunciation o
the monstrous wrong which has sapped tn,
vitality and virtue OF the Nation. .Slapey5
is dead, and the Republic Lvesi Lives /
new life, graduated by the principles o
God eternal justice. The footballs of ad
vancng Freedom throw their forward echoe
upon the gladdened ears Of liherty-lovinl
men, and soon the imprints Other might!
tread will DO discernabe over and upon th,
) PROSTATE and mortal remains Of the haught.
but doomed slave power. The Americas
Republic henceiorward is free in fact and i
name. God bloss Abraham Lincoln !"
Yours for liberty,
| RICHARD BUSTED.
Nep Fork, Sept. %, 1862.