Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-01-14
Very

Very Unhappy.People.
That class of politicians calling them.
selves Democrats" are professedly in q
most unhappy state of mind over the
Presidents Emancipation Proclamation.
The Negro is the terrible goblin that
haunts their perturbed imaginations by
day and night. Judging by the matter
and temper of the editorials of some Of
the small but Gerry pcise Democratic papers,
1t might be inferred that their peculiar
mental ailment was niger on the brain.
A very small Ethiopian is capable of dis
turbing the equanimity of the largest pos
sible development of Democratic brain' II
being very susceptible of influencs III 'na'
direction. The class under censrotroh
cannot refer to the Negr0 questlon with
GU foaming with r@ge like a rabid dog,
BEING mad on che niger question, we
must designate them as Negrophobiaists.
Their last discovery is that Lincoln is
determined on an abolition War" This
is awful! If it was only a pro-Slavery
war, that would suit them. But since the
President has resolved that a very mate
rial means of rapidly terminating the war,
would be to treat the rebels as enemies,
and despoil them Of their most valuable
item of wealth and strength, to wit their
three millions of slaves, the immaculate
Democracy raise their pious hands to
Heaven and calculate in the most dolo-
rons Observation-Disclosures War
And following the cue of such rascally,
traitorous sheets as the Cincinnati En-
quirer, they announce that mo good
Democrat" will assist in carrying on the
war.
Now when we consider the extreme
lenity of the National Governmental the
rebels, in not having monthssince employ
ed every means to turn the slaves against
their traitor masters, as should have been
done, by paying them at least as much
per month for cutting their masters
Threats as we pay our soldiers for shooting
and ~bayoneting them; we say when the
forbearance of the Government is consid-
cred, we are of the opinion, unqualifedly
expressed. that the man who opposes
emancipation, or any other legal means
ofannoying, weakening and oyerthrowing
the power of the rebels, is at heart as
black a traitor and as unmitigated a rebel
as the perjured Davis, the thieVing Floyd
or the drunken Wigfall, each of whom
concurs no doubt. heartily with the DEM
porats who anathemize Lincoln's Procla-
mation.
The great struggle now going on cannot
but terminate in the defeat of the South
ern traitors. 1t may take a year or two
more of fighting to render it certain. Be
that as it may, this one fact stands out as
prominently to our mind as the sun in
the zenith, that the longer the struggle is
protracted the more assuredly will Slavery
be overthrow. In the nature of things
its extirpation by civil process, would. be
comparatively slow, but that revolution
which in a time of peace would have re-
long years to have accomplished
the abolition of Slavery. will be driven
by the force and violence of war with a
celebrity that will reduce years to monthsin
the glorious work of slavery extirpation.
'God moves in a mysterious way, his
wonders to perform" And now that
Heaven has so willed that the power of
the National Government should be turn
ed against the Institution of Slavery, hell
and the Southern Confederacy, and the
butternut democracy, in triple alliance,
cannot save it. Hence, those unhappy
mortals, who imagine a negro always at
their heels, haunting their guilty con-
sciences, and who, probably, have their
nocturnal slumbers disturbed by dreams
of giant Africans astride their PROSTATE
bodies, ready TO swallow them alive,
as well reconcile themselves to the
abolition of slavery as a result they can
not avert. Whether these poor fellows
hould be more pitied than despised, IS to
Is a matter of too little consequence to
waste time in its discussion. .