The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-01-14

of the United States, has authority under
the war power, to issue his emancipation
proclamation, On this point the President
thus speaks:
Now, therefore, |, ApRAuAN LINCOLN.
President of the United States. hy virtue of
tho power in me vested us Commaudor.in.
Chief Of the Army and Navy in time of an
actual armed rebellion against tho authority
of the Government of the United States,
and AZ tit and necessary war measure for
supprcssng said rebellion, do on this First
day OF january in the year of our Lord ONE
THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND sIXrY.TuReE
and in accordance with my purpose SO to
do, publicly proclaim for tho full period of
one hundred days from the date of the first
above mentioned order. and do designate as
the States and parts of States wherein the
people thereof respectively are this day in
rebellion against the United States, the
following, to wit:
Which excepted parts are for the pros.
cut lett precisely as if this proclamation
were not issued, and by virtue OF the pow.
er and for the purpose aforesaid, do order
and declare that all persons held as slaves
within these designated States and parts of
States, henceforwmd shall he free, and that
the Executive Government ut the United
States, including tho military and naval
authorities thereof will recognize aud main
tain tho freedom OF said persons and
hereby cmjoin upon the people 30 declared
to be free, TO abstain from all violence,
unless in necessary self defense and re-
commend to them that in all cases whom al
lowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable
wages; and ! further declare and make
known that such persons OF suitable con-
dition. will be received into the armed SER
vice of the United States to garrison forts
positions, stations and other places, and to
man vessels of all sorts in said service, and
upon this, sincerely believed to be an act of
justice, warranted by the Constitution upon
military necessity invoke the consider
ate judgment Of mankind, and the gracious
favor of Almighty God"
No man can read this production of the
President without thrill of patriotic
pride, and they who possess the conscious
ness, as | do, of having lubored from the
first to secure the results which it ultimately
promises, u p0rpeuIa! union of these States,
with harmonious institutions based upon
freedom instead of slavery, will feel a salts
faction which words are to feeble to express
Let all remember that we should not
have had this glorious proclamation to-day
had the earnest men of this country 90
manned silent and orLminally Indifferent to
this great movement, as did the political
fossils, compromisers, and timid old gran
MES, who in the North joined hands with
men in almost every Republican county in
our State, who did not scrupe to apologize
for the rebels and defend the rightiulness
OF human slavery. This unnatural coali-
tion. called Union fo, the sake IF Me
Union" party, made on the part of pro-
slavery men in and out of the Republican
party, was made for the most part in Re-
publican counties, where they were in u
hopeless minority, for the sake of the spols
of office. They refused to do this in pro
! slavery counties. where they had undoubted
majorites. But i'll Republican countiet
they were clsmorous for the " Union for III,
sake Of tie UMi0M" movement. You viii
remember how boldly the most notorious
pro-slavery men, i'll every Republican county
in our District, rushed into the "UniOR f0,
tie sake Of tie Union, conventions, took the
front seats without scruple and demanded
the best offices without blush,
This coalition throughout tho State en-
abled the friends of slavery to break down
the Republican party and inaugurate, in
upon the Crttenden platform, TINS securing
the great States of Ohio, New York, Penn
sylvania and Illinois in tho lato elections to
the political opponents of tho Administra-
tion, Wherever the Republican organ
izatiOn Was maintained IN It's Integrity the
| Administration was handsomly sustained.
Witness our overwhelming triumphs in
Maine, Massachusetts, Iowa, Minnesota,
and Kansas,
need not tell you how earnently la
bored to prevent this fatal step in Ohio.
When | first learned that such u move
ment was on foot, in May or June, 1861, |
went 10 Dayton, Cincimati, Columbus, Cleve-
land, and other places Of lesser note, and
protested against it,
After coming to Washington, at the extra
session, submitted 20 the Republican mem.
bers of Congress tic draft of call for u
State Convention, which had left with the
State Central Committee, and every member,
with but one exception signed it, as a sug-
gestion embodyiig their views on the snb-
iect. and | sent that to tho State Committee
at Columbus, bit they disregareed all such
suggestions, md made the unfortunate call
they did, and as was predicted, have sue
ceeded in giving i'll the State fourteen of the
nineteen Numbers of the next Congress to
the Vallariigham Democracy. With the
State Government at Columbus ostensibly in
our possession, they have increased the ma
iority against us in Franklin county more
than doibc. Are not our friends satisfied
by thistime that this Union for he sake Cf
Me UiOn," is political dodge Of the most
transarent of political adventures. If they
are MT, let them try it again | am, and have
been from the first, in favor of a union of all
earlsst men, upon principle, to put down
thisrebeliOn, bat not such union as was
scared by coalition with pro-slaVery men
mon the Crttenden resolutions, for, as
g cry man knows, those resolutions were
acheat and a humbug, and glory in the
act that spat upon and repudiated them
In nv last canvass. Let us return to our
principles and re-organize the only true
Union party-the Republican party--the
only party that has been true to freedom
the only party that, during this terrible con-
fict, has had no traitor or rebel 3ympa-
thizer in it's ranks.
The battle is to he waged from this time
henceforward, not only against the rebels,
but also against the cause and support of
the rebellion. There Can now be but two
parties in the NOath-the party OF freedom,
and the party of slavery. The party OF
freedom will be, as it ever has been, for the
Union-the party of slavery will be, as il
ever has been for all compromises de.
manded by their old political allies, the
rebels. In this great contest, then, there
can be but two sides, and he who is not for
I" Liberty and Union" must be against Lib
erty and Union" The battle may be long
and rage fercely, but from this day dates
our victory.
awake, watcher; see the mountains peaks
Already catch golden ray,
Light On the far horizon speaks
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