Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-11-06
THE PROCLAMATION.

THE PROCLAMATION.
EXTRACT PROM THE SPEECH OF SECRETARY
CHASE.
The Proclamation was never intended to
interfere with the States that were loyal
This proclamation comes up as great feature
in this war. In my judgment the proclama-
ton was the right thing in the right place,
and without 1t, am just as sure az | am Of
my own existence, that we could not have
made the progressive have made, and hold
that he VINO denounces the Proclamation,
either speaks ignorantly Of that of which he
knows but little or nothing, or else he really
desires that the rebellion should succeed 49,
Loud applause. There is no alternative.
The rebellion would have succeeded but for
the proclamation. II then, a man opposes
the proclamation, be opposes it because he
does not understand It, or because he wishes
the rebellion to succeed But then, say some,
you are making war upon the people Of the
South, and you will not let them come back
into the Union with their slaves.
Well, now gentlemen, there are two class.
es of States in the South there is the class
Of states not aHec ed by the proclamation -
We have simply nothing to do except 10 bid
God speed to the unconditional Union men
Of those States. They will do their own
work in their own way, and in their own time
49, applause aud all we have to do is to stand
by them. But in the states which are affect
ed by the proclamation, the case is different
Either the proclamation was a great mon
strous sham and imposition in the face Of
the whole world, or else that proclamation
was an efFectual thing, and there are no slaves
to-day in the rebel states. Loud cheers
ThpN al apfyonohtraI ht, 10
ton for what says it All the slaves are
declared now and forever free, and the exec
utive power is pledged to the maintenance of
this freedom. If it were not so, it would be
national imposture, and / would no more
be guilty of that piece of infamy than would
steal into your house at night and rob your
pantry. Laughter and cheers.
But what have we to do with this procla-
nation in the rebelious slave states tbs
very simple thing. just simply recognise the
Union meu who remain in those States Such
men as Durand Mr.. Flanders, and Mr. May, |
and whole host of others who were known
as slaveowners, are now satisfied that the |
Union men of the South must see to it that
slavery must never be permitte to be re -es-
in those States. Take such man
as the Hon. Mr.. Auderson When he went
home and stood up for the Union, what did |
the slave aristocracy do for him (, They drove
him from the State, and his wife and little |
ones we're obliged to take shelter in the bush
es, and so with multitudes of Union men in |
Texas at the present day, but all of them
wish to get back and establish free state N |
Texas, because they say no other than a free
state can ever protect them from the enemies
OF freedom, and, | was going to say, of human
nature. Cheers.
Again, in Florida there were many who
were driven away who are now anxious to
return. Is there man here who wants these
noble, generous Uuion men of the South to
go back to be trampled under foot by restored
rebels? Cries Of No. No. Let them %
back, but let them 20 back under the pgis Of
the American Union, with the protection of
the Government pledged to them, cheers
and then they will take care to settle this
que stion Of slavery They will amend the
Constitution so as to put the slavery question
where it ought TO be. When that is done.
who is going to talk about the proclamation
You have here, my fellow citizens, an intelli-
gent statement, as it seems to me, OF the man
ner in which this thing can be settled simply
by standing by the unconditional Union men,
who almost all of them have embraced the
doctrine Of emancipation in the border states,
and standing by the Union men in the pro-
slavery states, and letting them protect them
selves against the institution of slavery.