Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-03
The PresidenI's Emancipation ProcIama.


From the Memphis Bulletin, September SOL
We should be glad to hear Mr.. Lincoln give
a satisfactory auswer to his own objection to his
own proclamation, as stated a lew days ago to
the Chicago clergymen. His objections were
thus stated:
What good, " asked he, would q proclsma-
ton of emancipation from me do, especially as
We are now situated. I DO not want to issue a
document that the whole world will sea must
necessarily be imperative, like the P5pe's bull
against the comet. Would mg word free the
slaves, when / cannot even ent0rce the COnst-
tuition in the rebel Ststesi Is there a single
court OF magistrate, or Individual, that would be
iUh lence by it there2 And what reason is
there to Think it would have any greater effect
upon the slaves than the late law OF Congress.
which l approved, and which offers protection
and freedom to the slaves Of rebel masters who
come within our lines. Yet / cannot learn that
that law has caused a single slave 10 come over
to US. An suppose they could be induced, by
. proclamation Of freedom from me, /. throw
themselves upon Us, lrhat should zee do riIl them
How can we feed and care for such a multitudel
General. Butler wrote me, a few days since, that be
was issuing more TstiOns to the slaves who have
rushed to him than to all the white troops under
his command. They eat aud that Is all"
After the President answers these objections,
we would like to have his explanation Of the
following resolution passed unanimously BY
Congress the 1Ith day of February, 1861:
BeSOi1ed, That neither Congress, nor the peo-
pie, nor the governments of the nOn-slavehOld-
ing States, have the right to legislate upon or in
t%ertere with slavery in any Of the slaveholding
States of the Union.
Finally, we would respectfully call his alien
ton to his inaugural, delivered before the peo-
pies representatives at Washington, on the 4th
day of March, 1861
Il have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to
interfere with the institution Of slavery in the
States where it exists. 1 believe I have no law
fol right to do so, aud l have no inclination to
do sO.'
And then he goes on to say;
Those who nominated and elected me, did
so with the full knowledge that I had made this
and many similar declarations, and have never
recanted them. And more than this thew
placed in the platform for my acceptance, and
as q law to themselves and to me, the clear and
emphatic resolution which now read
"'BeSOIDed, That the maintenance i~nyioIate of
the rights Of the States, aud especially the right
Of each State to order and control its own do
nestle institutions according 10 its own iadg-
ment exclusively, is essential to the balance Ct
power on which the perfection and endurance Of
our political fabric depend"
AahAuE OIL ~ AutNSuluk LuLC CulSlltTdLi0ur u
appears TO US the President IS very much in the
condition represented by an snecdOte-perhaps
told by Mr.. Lincoln himself-as follows
An old man and his wife, when well stricken
in years, turned their thoughts to pisty. The
old gentleman undertook to hold the family wor-
ship. He read the holy Bible and knelt in
He c0rtinued 50 long that the COW bel
lowed to be turned oat to grass. The Old lady
quietly stepped out and MIXED the animal, and
to the house to fnd her husband still
at prayer. She repaired to the kitchen and
cooked breakfast. Still her husband prayed.
t last the wife suggested that breakfast was
and he had better stop. 4" Well" said
the old man., Il have been trying to stop. but II
got the Id thing in such a tangle | could not
ind q place to stop" We regard the proclama-
lion as unconstitutional and exceedingly i'll
timed. 1t IS calculated TO d., We fear. immense 1
mischief IN Kentucky, Missouri snd MARYLAND.
where important military events are on the fans.
But our most serious objection to it. is, that II
all we have ever said in defense of M
fcOnseTystism, and confirms the ar
yument Of that class of men South. who have
ieceded from the Union on the ground that Mr.
Lincoln was an ab0litionist and would admin.
ster the government with a view to the over
brow Of slavery. There is to-day one universal
hout IN Dixie over the proclamation " I told
'ou So told you so" runs through the lines
md thel men In the slave States hang tbeir
leads in sorrow.
The Enemy az GraBby Mines, near zrksa-
sas ~Elne-senera4 sehOdefd Prepared 70