Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-11-07

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Let any Southern man. disposed % coupla,n
Of the Knancipatiun prpclamafion, think tDr
momsnt wiIs,hsr tbs Soeth q nbtht least -
meat as ne Adminis,tpfioq1 y not ths aouth
herself 70 Be held accountable fof every blow IN
this Wer agninel her past Prosperity A. her
fields lie untitled ~ h1I crops f6l 0tlQklhcfDd,
es her laborefs are transformed 70 idle paupen
"a burden where they have been The source 81
Influence. ns her sons bouf thfif bfnt blood IN
fields Of fruitless battle - poverty, destoction
and universal anarchy make her everywhere
desolate--ehe must answer this squcation afirtnn-
lively. She Is doomed 10 know witha terrible
certainty that no amount Of reeisiauce, however
skillfully organised OF Tesolutely persisted In,
win interfere TO protect her from the Just pun,
ishment for her mon,entoaa crime. The loyal
citizens ofthe United States win never desert
the cause Of the Government while vestige Of
the rebellion remaina unsubdued--whiie trait
or remains unwhipped ofjuslice. Aud this too,
however, loyal citizens may differ rs 10 the Wis
dom Ofsny particular line Of policy adopted hy
those at the head Of affaiH. Tho Adminisifa-
tioD is bound 10 its best discretion and heaft-
lest efforts shat the republic receives no detri-
ments. On IL, and not on the people, rests The
responsibility for any particular course Of policy
adopted. The peeple have only TO support the
Government zealously, and sooner or later they
and universally vindicsted. The President is
honest and energetic. HisonlY purpose is the
restoration Of the Union; his only policy is what
will tend to that end; he attacks only what he
sincerely belfves TO be obstacles in that plain
path ofduty. The loyal people see him In
position that would test 10 the utmost tho great
est administrative ability ever possessed by
statesman; they give him their sympathy and
their prayers, and are not disposed to RrudRe
him their aid even when therearises any diffeu~
ence Of opinion among them as TO this or that
line Of policy. There Is an honest diversity OF
Judgment among Union men on the propriety
and even the constitutionality, Of the emaneipa-
tton proclamation. But rebels and sympathisers
with rebellion only exhibit anew their consum-
mate folly as they appear to gather comfort from
this. The war viii be supported as zealously
as ever by those who are not wholly pleased
with the new programme. This is only an In.
eident in the contest in which the loyal heart Of
the American people is wholly engaged. n1fB
Against the effects of the proclamation, or
rather ofthe WARRIOR proclamation or no proc
laInation, the continuance Of the war doomed
the institution Of Slavery in disloyal sections
the rebel has but one remedy, unconditional
submission and return to his former allegiance.
The proclamation fixes on the opening OF the
new year as the limit of the days Of grace. When,
by the force Of that mandate his slaves are freed,
they are forever lost to him. He has no redress.
As rebel, he can make no appeal to the courts
bunal, what he may wish to prove, the uncon-
ditionality Of that paper. Rebels cannot Claim
the protection Of the fundamental law they have
| insulted, whose obligations they have disregard
ed, and whose authority they have defied. The
courts are closed to them. A loyal citizen, SO
losing his slaves, could bring the issue before
the courts in due time; but meanwhile the me-
groes would have been their own custodians, or
have been placed beyond the reach of the claim
ant, by the direct interPosition OF the United
States Governmentand decision in his favor
were that 70 be the result of judicial deliberaton,
could only give him compensation from the Ma
tional Treasury, which is now held out to him
! BY the President. Surely the proclamation can
hardly be called an imperative document when
rebels cannot appeal from the dictum, and loyal
citizens can have no motive SO to do.
We are not fanatically disposed on the subject
of negro emancipation. We sincerely regret
the ruin spreading over the once opulent dis
tricts of the South. But we cannot, like one of
our cotemporares, think the standing cropsof
this region Of more importance than the restora-
ton Of the Union or, like another, sigh for peace
at the expense of half an empire. The world
has seen terrible blow dealt against the insti-
tuition Of Slavery in the progress Of thisciyi war
An overruling Providence seems to have decreed
| to it even greater ruin. We accept the facts OF
our acting history, and endeavor to point out its
lessons for the benefit OF those to whom our
words may 60, in no unkindly ePirit but with
country to her former course of solid prosperity
and unrivaled national greatness. We feel deep
ly for every man that has been deluded into an
. honest support OF the cause of JEFF. Davis and
his confreres. We have no patience for the byp-
ocritcal quasi supporters Of the Union among
us who seem yet TO anticipate return Of the
power of rebellion here, and who endeavor to
wear toward traitors and treason. tLri
"ons auspicious. and one dropping eye" '.a'
Toward all the adherents, open and disguised
Of the hersey Of Secession, we have one plain
duty: to warn them of the ruin which win yet
overturn more than the one institution of Sla-
very, if their past course is presisted in. The
war will be prosecuted until every inch Of ter
ritory whers the Constitution of the United
States has been the supreme law, shall have been
restored TO the control of that authority, though
military necessity may have swept away all in
stitutions, and absolute desolation may have
been one result of the prolonged contest. The
soil of the United States must be rid of the pol
luton of treason, whatever it costs traitors
The fIag Of the United States must wave every
where triumphant, though it waves over waste.
Time will restore ali things; laborers to our
fields, wealth to our storehouses, lfeto our COM
merce, the institutions, Of learning and religion
la new world may appear superior to the old
but first, there must be restored tho National
Honor. HHE