The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-02-19

~ i''' ths necessity IOT INC step!-
But the Commander-in- Chief, survey
ing the whole field of the rebellion; In It's
cause and probable results, aud lin its relo-
tions to this country and to other coun.
triesJdid consider it necessary, and It was
for him alone to Judge. WAL you revolt
against his judgment? Answer. "No!
mol nol']
Are you in doubt as to the efficiency
of tho measrre2 What avail such
doubtsp Do they promote the Union
causeP othey make you any better
patriot3 Does your devotion to your
country recruit itself from their com
panionsbip7 Nay, is it not weakened
by their presence2
Do you say, "What is the use Of the
Proclamation when we have no possess.
ion of the regions in which it is to op-
crate, and is therefore powerless?' l
answer that the same course of rea
soniug would enervate every blow; for
Omniscience can only Foresee whether
blow will be efectual or not. It's
not for those aiming it to decide in ad-
vance that it will fail. SO to decide is
, to insure failure. ".
DO you shrink aghast from the pic.
ture which rushes upon your vision, oi
the maddening'horrors ola servile insur.
D rection? So do [, aud so does every
3 man with the least spark of humanity
| in his naturc:but if such an insurrsctior
follows the promulgation of measure
d that is demanded to save the life of the
. nation, let the dread responsibility res
= where before God and men it rightful
t ly bolongs-upon those whose Treason
>, creates the terrible necessity. rAS
j. plause. ..
s Are you troubled to know what shall
). be done with the millions of Southern
Q negroes after they become free2 l an
n swer, that is not the present question
1t but what shall be done with this rebel
J. lion? Immense applause Soldier
= ask not in battle, "What shall we d
n with the prisoners and the spoils who
IS the fight is over?' but, GLOW shall W
: whip the enemy?" [Thunders of up
C plausc To debate what shall bGcom
e of the negro, is to put that problem i
Is the scale against your country's life
II whether you intend it or not. Crie
h of"Never. - Leave the future to the fu
i ture the prescutis is our care. The in
l. slant demand Of this hour is, by ever
G avaiable means, to overwhelm, scatter
If rout and destroy traitors. Cries 0
i That's it" That's it."] Self preser
n vation demands that Slavery, their lido
s and the right arm of their power, b
?, wrested from them; for their feet are o
.e a war path, to which we can see no en-
is while Slavery bears them onward. TIL
- destiny of the enfranchised negroes non
p but God can shape; leave it, then, to hi
4, aIl.ruling Providence.
d But there are those who see in tlii
| measure only deeper embttermeut c
A. the South, and an increased hopeless
e. ness Of restoring the Union. Is tina
/ truc2 What hope has there ever bee
c. since Sumpter fell, that the Uuio
" would be preserved otherwise than b
10 the resistless agency of powder, ball an
rs bayonet2 Is there human being VIII
d, still hugs the delusion that peace is I
, smile upon this country again as a ua
D. tel country, except by the subjugatio
Of this daunable rebellion? Great a p
ic plausc If there is, let him drop thl
C. folly from his EN- brace, and open h
III eyes to the utter hOpelessness of ever
to attempt to concilitate that aristocrac
is which, with a deliberate purpose, form
- ed in some Southern minds fifty yea
be ago, and controlling Southern actio
d! with steady sway through the past thi
3. ty years, resolved that this Unio
or should be re!entlessty destroyed al
n supplanted in that fair Southern cliu
rv by "a CoNFEDERACY OF sLAvEHoLpIS
he STATES, to be, as they fondly hope
/? "the most important among the nations
Sc The ,oorld." IIalf a century's treasol
u plotted aud pursued through every for
Mt ofduplicity ,falsehoOd and treachery, AN
Id blazing out at last in robbery, Gre al
ne blood, is not to be conciiated, but wi
r. the full fruitiou fitsdesperate scheme
p This proclamation, then, makes no mo
ct, hopeless what was hopeless from the IN
he ment of the rebellons outbreak. I'll
he mouso apPlausc.]
"a But, my friends, whatever the pc
Ip. tents of this hour, in connection wi
ko this proclamation, or with aught e.
es under the sky, the true, earnest patri
its has but one line of duty, and that is,