Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-13
Richmond Pnpors-General NIIIroy,s
Proclamation.

W ANNSa'NN Ao1h IiE1N lEOu OeueEhl
Nilroy, at Winchester, to whom We are IN
der so many obligations for like favors,
copies of the Richmond Enquirer aud Dis
patch newspapers of the 9Th instant, cap
turpd at Woodstock, Va, on the 8th, BY |
some of the lst New York cavalry, under
L!eutenaut-Col Shack!efotd. We have
also received from the General a copy of
his probation, in pursuance of the Presi- |
dents proclamation, to the inhabitants
around Winchester, which be tells us is
simply ga splinter" from "Old Abe's mighty |
slavery and treason shivering thunder
bolt" threads as follows:
WHEREAS, the President of the United
States did, on the first day of the present
month, issue his proclamation declaring
"that all persons held as slaves in certain
designated Statas, and parts of States, are, |
and henceforward shall be free" and that
the Executive Government of the United
States, including the Military and Naval
authorities thereof, would recognize and
maintain the freedom of said persons.
Aud whereas the county of Frederick is
included 10 the territory designated by the
proclamation of the President, in which
the slaves should become free, therefore
hereby notify the citizens of the CITY of
Winchester, and of said county of said pro-
ciamAu1n, aud of my intention to main
tain and enforce the same,
l expect all citizens to yield n ready
compliance with tue Proclamation of the
Chief Executive. and / admunish all per-
sons disposed to resist it's peaceful enforce
ment, that upon manifesting such disposi-
ton by acts; they will be regarded as reb-
els in arms against he,.laWfGl authority of
the Federal Government and dealt with &c.
cordingly.
All persons liberated by said ProcIama.
ton are admonished to abstain from all vi
olence, and Immediately betake themselves
to useful occupations.
Tho officers of this command are admon-
ished and ordered to act in accordance
with said proclamation, and to yield their
ready cooperation in its enforcement.
Il. Il. MILRoY,
Brigadier General COmd'g.
Winchester, Va, Jan. 9th, 1868.
So far as we have seen, this proclama-
ton of Gen. MiIroy's is the first one, fol-
lowing that of the Presidant, that has
been issued by any of the Generals:
The Richmond Dispatch before US has
an article on the proclamation of the Pres
idents, just referred to, which, as a mat
ter of interest, we copy.
LIXcoLS's EMANCIPATION PROGRAMME.
The South has given its answer 20 Lin
coins programme of emancipation at
Fredericksburg and Murfreesboro. If he
wanted to know in advance what would be
the effect of his promised proclamation,
he has probably by this time been partially
enlightened. The South docs not answer
his manifesto with words. "She leans nm
on her blood-stained sword,'' Indifferent
alike whether he oils his speech with soft.
conservative blaruey, or whether be bowls
forth the threats of the incendiary and
murderer. When he comes near enough.
she strikes, and sends his Inyrmidous reel
ing back, bloody and dying, to their mas
ter. So far as his promising of St. Do
mingo campaign is expected to iutimidate
our people, he may decide whether the late
battles give any token OF such influence
So far as it is designed TO operate upon the
serTiIe population, be might as well pro-
Claim emancipation to the serfs OF Africa.
When he undertakes to give practical
operation to his policy, by organizing and
sending among US negro regiments, we
shall know how to donl with such an emer-
geucy. 1t will then DO n literal hoistiug OF
.'the black Ass" by his own hands, and his
sable STANDARD will not be recognized as
entitled TO the protection of the rules of
civilized war. Tho black bNrbAriaus wiN
be dealt with according to the State laws
already in existence for such offences, and
- ---r"-,iors will Oe subject to
the same capital punishment.
But no proclamation which tbs Yankees
have issued, or may issue, will have the
slightest effect upon the slave population
OF the South. Wherever his armies have
penetrated, they have kidnapped every ne.
gro they could lay their hands on. ard.
proclamation or no proclamation, whenever
they are able they will continue to do the
same. But beyond the lines of the FEEDER
al army, slavery will continue intact and
Impregnable as the rock of Gibraltar. 1t
is good deal older than any earthly roy
eminent, audit will last good deal longer
than any throne or republic of the earth. |
Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants
shall he be to his brethren, :" is proclama-
ton which even the mighty Abraham Lin
cola cannot abolish.
Concerning the recent battle of Muir
freesboro, the Richmond papers are much
exercised to know just what to say about
it. They are not so clear rs they were
few days ago that they gained glorious
victory" as the following from the Di.pqte6
will show:
THH FALLING BACK IN TENNESSEE.
Gen. Bragg has certainly retreated to
ShelbyvilIe, thirty miles from his victory
at Murfreesboro, as he did last fall from his |
victory at Perryville. On this occasion he |
has saved his prisoners, captured guns,
stores, SC. But if he has retired that is
the fashionable phrase on our side, as a |
rhanUa 0f haGnH ia nm the nflaHA ~ |
byVille with his whole army he has thrown
East Tennessee entirely open to the
Yankees. There is very strong position
beginning with Shelbyville on the LEFT, ex-
tending across the railroad running from
Nashville to Chattanooga, at or near its
junction with the Sheibyville road, with its
centre at place called Dechert, and its
right terminating in the Cumberland Noun
taius-the whole distance being twenty 1