Natchitoches union. [volume] ([Natchitoches, La.]) 1859-1864, 1862-10-23
More about the Proclamation

we hardiy supposed tnat tne Louis
vile Journal had spunk enough to
speak out SO explicitly as it has done
in the article from which welcxtfact
the following: h"fS. .+a". 7'fs e'a7eI
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/. Owe shall not stop now, to discuss
the character and tendency of this
measure. Both are manifest. The
one is as understandable as the other
lis mfschieveus. The measure is who'll
| ly pernieious Though it cannot be .ex-
ecntod in faot,b aud though its execu-
tien probably will never be. scriousIy
attempted, its moral influence will be
decidedly aud purely hurtfuLq SO far
as its Own purpose is concerned, it is
mere brHium fnimea, but it will prove
only too. ofeetual for the purpose of
the enemy. Itis, gigantic usurpa-
ton, upeligved BY tie promise Of, a
tsJIitary advantage however minute
hhq fafht. but, ON the contrary, az
gfavcd by the menace Of great and IN
",eHASSP }faa"5p Y yaL Ia E.4eE
a, Kentucky cannot, and will not ac
qniesce in this measure. Neyerl A
little will she allow tito chill her devo-
ton to the cause thus cruelty finiberil
led by it,, 81 he government our fathers
framed is. one thing, and a thing above
pIriicej Abraham Lincoln, the Temporal
bfN occupant Of the Executive chair, is.
another thing, and u thing of compare
tiycly little worth. The one is an
Individual, the sands of whose official
existence afe.1unnlng fast and who,
when his official existence shall end
will be no more oa. less than any other
individual. The other is "a grand
political structure, fl which is con
tanned the treasures and the energies
of civilization, aud upon whose lofty
and shining dome seen from he shores
Of al climes, center the eager hope OF
mankind. What Abraham Lincoln as
| President does or fails to do may exalt
or lower our estimate of himself. but
not of the great bcnifcent government
Of which he is but the temporary ser
want. The temple is not the less sacred
and prccarious bccausc the priest lays
an unlawful sacrifice upon the altar
The 10y lily Of Kentucky is not to bta
shaken by any mad act of the Presl-
dent = Unnecessary, she will resist the
act, and aid in holding tie actor to
just and lawful accountability, but she
WiIl never lift her hand against the
glorious fabric because he has bindly
or criminally smittcn it. She canno
be 50 false to herself as this. She is
incapable of such guilt and folly"
4 Tho New York Express develops it.
self after the following fashion:
a "The President has at last been bored
by the radicals into doing what he
repudiated in Gen. Fremont, Gen. Hun
ter, Gen! Phelps and others that is
firing q paper proclamation at the re-
bcIion. We do not Know what is al
lowed in free white men to, discuss
this proclamation by freeing negroes
1--but we shall venture ON the discus,
sion of it as far as we think a white
mans liberty will permit Before We.
dc, this, however we have To say
that 1t is not q matter to be regretted
that the President has at last done.
what the. New England abolitionists
as, under that dictation it has ,t to be
ldene, etc, and, as being done we
shall soon see whether or not as they
have predicted it will end the war in
sixty OF. seventy days by overawing,
aflrightinGa, and astounding the rebels.
! in the first place, it strikes us the |
President has no more constitutional
power to issue such a proclamation
thin any other man. If lie has any
Constitutional authority to free ne
greesi he, has a corresponding constit-1
utional. authority to cnslave them
The power exercised is an assumption
therefore, throughout, and hence islnere
lrNlMM 1NlmeR the moro. therefore. to