The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-06-12

ded further, that our most noble President
might suspend for a period the operation
of this law as our armies advanced south
ward, SOFAS toaford all an opportunity to
accept pardon. Worse still this law ac-
tually applied to no one but the rebels
And it is astonishing thatit applied to
them everywhere, North as well as South
in Springfield, Illinois, as we'll as
Springfield, Tennessee. But worse still
it'did not affect the rights or property
of Union men, women and children, or
,lunatics, in any section of the country.
That Congress, strange as it may seem,
did not perceive that the way to end the
rebellion and restore affectionate relations
between the sections was to place the
Union men, women, children and the in
sane upon perfect footing of equality
with the vilest traitors in the land. u That
Congress believed that the crime Of refus-
ing obedience to the usurpation of Davis
& Co., in Mississippi, Arkansas, North
Carolina and elsewhere, amid the terrors
Of a military despotism, did not merit the
same or worse punishment than that they
had denounced against titled and official
traitors. That Congress spared the wo-
men and children; it also shielded from
harm the Union men who still adhered to
the national symbol of protection. What
weakness! But Congress has adjourned.
What was to be done? Thank Heaven,
our sagacious President was found equal
to- the OCCASION, E.. a.,ra- .t.s. - 9.
You will perceive that on the LIST of
January last, under this so-called Confisca-
ton law, the slaves of every rebel in the
United States, who had not accepted the
amnesty therein provided were de jure
free. But how were we to end this re-
bellion if the Union men, women and chill
dren in the so-called Confederate States
were left-in uudisturbed possession. of all
their legal and constitutional rights !? IF
this ipolicy were adopted the rebels might
become angry with these monuments of
Federal mercy" and in that event the
spared monuments aforesaid might cling
more closely to the Federal flag. This d.
vision among the people might cause a
still more unhappy state of affairs in Dix
ie.; our friends there might have to bear
additional .indignities. AS before remark
ed, our merciful and considerable President
was found equal to the crisis. In long
conversation with some inspired apostles
from the sanity city of Chicago place
where Onderdonking and other worldly
amusements are unknown-the President
candidly confessed that he was endeayor-
ing Che did not state the means) to ascer-
tain the will of the Lord upon this, diff
cult question:. that so soon as be learned
the divine pleasure he verify would do the
will of the Master who. sent him, The
revolution came doubtless Hby due course
of mail" .s..- .,.....N .5 si....,... '...
Judging from s'that which is written, .
| it amounted to this: that in a portion of
Virginia and Louisiana, in Delaware, in
Maryland, in Tennessee and Missouri, lit
was lawful for traitors who had accepted
the amnesty provided by the Confscation
law aud all other persons to hold slaves /;
but that in the tidewater regions of Viz
gipia, and in that part of Louisiana which
had not been consecrated to slavery by
the military occupation Of General Butler,
as also in. North Carolina, Florida, Geor-
gia, Alabama, Mississippi. Arkansas and
Texas, it should no longer be lawful for
the Union men, women and children to
hold. our African fellow-citizens to service
orolahoraiqAnd yet there are those of the
"eopperhead persuasion who profess not
to see the wisdom of this great master
stroke of our most noble and exalted Pres
ident. Sirs, did it. not Immediately di-
vide the South and unite the, North p
Were not our camps forthwith crowded
with countless myriads Of bold and ardent
recruits ? Have not sour American breth-
rem Of African descent 'crowded by thous.
ands into our ranks, inspiring our, soldiers
with wild enthusiasm, and rendering
night vocal with the songs Of enfranchised
Dinahs and mewling and pnking Sambos !?
and have not our arms been victorious
everywhere since the dawn of the Negro
millennium of 1868 moo. 5at aigolot.
81 know that zmeu like General M.
Bray man, who commands in your vicini-
ty Cat. Bolivar, Ienhessee) are guilty Of
absurdities of speech which affordrthe en-
emies Of our sagacious President excuses
for complaint and criticism. For in.
stance, on the 14th of last March that Of
feer, then in, command at Bolivar, wrote
as follows in regard ito the proclamation
of freedom with which our ilustrieus and
far-seeipg President greeted the advent
of the9iaeW year !; 1.-THE loyal man ID
equally helpless with the disloyal; % in
fact more so Z, for the erebel takes his