Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-29
ddlOttester Daily Spp
The Presidents Proclamation.
Frem the Providence Journal.


The proclamation announcing the emanci-
patton of the slaves in the rebellious districts
will proceed from the highest military author
lty, and will be made as a war measure. We
may therefore reasonably expect that the
men and journals who have always been so
loud in their demands that the military au-
thorities should not be interfered with, who
have charged congress and the ''black repub-
LEANS generally with damaging ourprospects
by criticisms on the military movements, will
now be very careful to do nothing to prevent
the complete success OF the plan, which the
commander-in-chief of the army and the navy
has decided upon and made known. They
will, OF course, be consistent enough to avoid
any harsh and embarrassing criticisms of
the project, much more any factious or par
tisan opposition to it. We are sorry to see
that some of them have so far forgotten the
broad principles they have heretofore laid down
as to speak with rather unseemly fervor in op-
position to this military scheme, in accordance
with which the president has resolved to carry
on the war. But this is probably owing to
momentary forgetfulness of their sage coun-
sells. We cannot doubt that little refec-
ton, a reference to the flaming invectives
which they have showered down so freely on
the heads of their opponents, will lead them
the war, where it belongs, with the military
authorities, and to support, with all the means
in their power, the policy which has been
fixed on after mature deliberation. This,
they have said again and again, is the only
way in which war can be successfully carried
on. Whatever, then, may have been their
previous opinions respecting the course which
has been adopted, however earnestly they
might have advised against it, had their opin-
ion been asked, they will now of course waive
their own ideas and second the effort which
the supreme military authority deems neces-
sary or advisable. Surely, nothing less can
be expected from them. We anticipate great
pleasure in beholding this delightful spectacle
Of consistency and this generous and loyal
sacrifice of private views to the supreme mill
tary authority of the land.
From the Plymouth Rock, (Democrat)
Heaven pity the man who does not feel a
thrill of new joy, filling heart and soul as he
reads this,-we trust when measured by re-
sults,-most important state paper that ever
received the executive signature. 1t is true,
as yet, it is only theoretical experiment.
But so was the Declaration of Independence
So must all great moral as well as political
revolutions be dependent upon the practical
developments which follow. The success of
the revolution rendered the declaration of
Jefferson an immortal basis on which was
erected the noble structure of free govern
ment. May God grant like success to the
national government, indicating its power
through all its wide domain, supported by col
lossal armies everywhere flushed with trium-
plant victories, and sustained by the united
voice of the people rising in the grandeur of
their undivided strength with the single key
note of action: The constitution and the gov
eminent must and shall be preserved, and the
authority of its laws and edicts be universally
respected and obeyed.
Then shall this proclamation prove the
thunderbolt of destruction to the curse and
blight of slavery, The flashing sword that
shall cut the ''Gordian knot and solve the
mighty problem of our difficulties, the bright
sunbeam that shall lift and scatter the dark
clouds that for a generation have draped in
gloom and portentous foreboding our political
horizon, are at last bursting upon us with this
hideous tempest Of civil war