The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-01-08
VI pFTTRNCTLE, 81 CO..
The Proclamation of Freedom.

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Rates.
The Proclamation of Freedom.
The Proclamation of President Lincoln, cons
irming and carrying out the Emancipation Proc
Iamation of Sept. %, which we give in another
place, will be hailed as the harbinger OF
lpeace-the beginning of the end OF this I'M
holy rebellion, that is deluging the country
with fraternal blood. The 1st of January 1868,
has been made immortal in the annals of the
western world, as the day upon which four mil
Iona of slaves were enfranchised and made
freemen, and endowed with those "inalienable
riyhts," which our immortal Declaration of In
dependence declares, belong to all men-'life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness" Hence.
forth this glorious truth put forth by our rev.
dictionary sires, will not be designa ted by our
politicians asa string of Offering generalities."
Henceforth the practice of our government viii
correspond with the theory upon which our
national edifice is founded, and poets may sing
with as much truth as Poetry
| "The star.spaugled Banner o, long may it wave
O'er the ofthe Free and the home Of the brave
| Let our conquering armies go on, now from
victory to victory, until the entire slave States
have been traversed, and the darkest spots OF
slavery have been gladdened with the light Of
Freedom, and the last shackle broaken and
then may we look for Peace and reunion The
rebellion was iuaugurated solely on account o.
slavery-with the hope of establishing mon
srchy, whose chief corner stone should be slave
ry! Thus slavery being the sole cause of tt"
war; the war will cease, because there will bs
no longer anything to fight for.
We accept emancipation as the natural res
suit Of this rebellian-an incident of the way
of the Union for which those who commenced
it-the shareholders themseves-are response
BILE. However much we may have hated slave
ry and its results, we should never have couD-
seled war and bloodshed for lis determination
nor, even after this war WAS inaugurated by the
shareholders themselves, with the Purpose o.
destroying this Free Government under which
as nation, We have 80 prosper ed and thriven
were we in faver of turning it into war fo
the abolition of Slavery. It was and is, wa
for the Union and the emancipation has come
naturally and perforce rs incidental TO such
war. Even at the last, the emancipation of TIT
slaves has come as military necessity. Ih
Union must be lost or slavery destroyed Choos
ing between the two, the President, as Com
mander in~C Chief of the Army and Navy ofth
country, chose to save the Union and let III
accused institution go it's way, to destruction
4 President Lincoln, with moderation frmnes
accepted the necessities of his position, an
: trusting TO the God of Justice, and the loys
people who elected him to the high and respor
: sble position he holds, to sustain and uphol
him, in the herculean task of enforcing the re
, quirements of that proclamation, he has sent
, forth, as one of the few grand documents tE
: world has seen and honored. The Magma Cha
ter of the English, and our own Declaration {
r Independence, are prototypes, and only supe
: rior to the Proclamation in their results upo
the Freedom and Civilization of their respeC
. tive ears OF the worlds great history. The EN-
mics, who asail the President for this exercif
. ofhis undoubted prerogative as Commander
Chief, will fail to accomplish their purpose
d creating trouble and instigating armed resis
/. ance to the administration, among the polite
parties of the loyal States. The semi-symp,
) thizers with treason and rebellion, may abus
sneer at, and threaten and talk loud and Ion
10 against it as usurpation-as contrary to II
Constitution &c but the great heart OF Il
nation is with, and will uphold the PresideI
. in his stern and righteous course, against Il
+. very head and front of this rebellion,
We can pledge the entire and hearty cool
ID Grafton and support of this great measure ofts
lie President, from this portion of our State fro
d personal knowledge. We have yet to meettl
e first man who did noe give US more cordi
greeting or more hearty shake of the han
i in token of appreciation and approval OF tn
u New Years Address of President Lincoln 3,
l.. the slave and saveholder The cry has be'
il. with almost every man we have met since Ne
& Years, THANK God, the mandate has gol
forth three cheers for Abraham Lincoln
70 This is the feeling of every true and loyal ma
ne in the country. There may be those set-styl
Democrats, who are determined to see nothi
L in any act of this administration, but an efc
for the abolition ofslavery who will howl lou
:, er and longer than ever, over this proclamati
because it is wider in its application, a
! more beneficient in its operation than al
T. act, since that declaring the thirteen coloni
RS free and independent of the tyrannical rule
Id old England but their voices will be raised
vain. The Right, Justice, and Freedom mi
90 OH and flourish in spite of all opposition.