Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-01-10
From the n. Y. Independent.
The National Promise of 1893.
j4 HORACE oRkrLY

BT HORACE GREELY.
BEFORE this sheet can reach majority
of It's readers, the issue of President Lin-
coins final Proclamation of Freedom will
have grandly inaugurated the third year of
our War for National existence. Let us
consider The circumstances under which
that document was given to the world, and
the national hopes which it is calculated to
Inspire.
1t cannot be plauslbly disputed that the
general aspects of the war have for some
months past been inauspicious. The rava.
ges OF our commerce by the British corsar
"29O" or Alabama the ominous demon.
Stration of Louis Napoleon, looking to an
untrlendly intervention in our quarrel the
bloody reupuse of Gen. Buruside's attempt
10 force the Rebel lines at Fredericksburg {,
the discontinue and dispersion or capture
of oulposts Of the Union armies in the
Southwest at Hurtsyille, Trenton, Tenn.
Holly Springs, etc. the repeated surprises
OF positions in the rear of Gen Burnside at
Dumtries and OccoquaD, oil tend to weaken
The National strength aud heart while
The successful iucursion of Gen Foster in.
TO the heart of North Carolina, and the
creditable victory Of Gen. Heron over
numerically superior Rebel army at Prairie
Grove, Arkansas, afford no adequate con-
ISOLATION. IL is but admitting the simple
truth to say that, in spite of our enormous
armaments aud expenditures We are no
nearer The overthrow of the Shareholders
Rebellion than we were three months ago.
Ia other words, the new policy hencefortb
TO be acted on by tbe UniUnists takes the
National cause at its lowest ebb, and when
~ Is manifest that without it there is no
salvation. m
That the new Proclamation, reiterating
and eniorceng in substance that Of Sept
22d last, will appear on the LIST of January,
1858, is no longer doubted There is all
manner of higgling as to its scope there
are efforts to exempt this State and that
district from its operation, which, it may
well be feared, will prove far too successful;
but that the second Proclamation WILL be
promptly issued, aud that it will declare
the freedom of all slaves OF Rebels and all
slaves OF persons residing or being ip States
or parls OF States at this moment in rebel.
lion against the authority aud unity of the
United States, is beyond question.
Mr Jefferson Davis, on behalf of his
Rebel Confederacy, has anticipated this is,
sue. On he 23dapst. he Illuminated from
Richmond Proclamation of death to all
negro slaves" who may be found fighting
for The Onion and oil commissioned eff
GERS" who may be captured while IN com.
paay 1Cith' such slaves He says, indeed,
that such NEGRO slaves" are TO BE 'at
once delivered over 10 the executive au.
thorities of The respective States to which
they belong, TO be dealt aritk according to
The LaaoS Of said States )" but no one will
seriously coutcnd that negroes captured ia
arms for the Union will be subec ed to
any nice scrutiny to determine whether
they were bond or free six months ago, or
to what State they formerly belonged
They will be Summarily and surely put TO
death, If this savage order is respected, aud
may think themselves happy if shot or
stab shall make speedy end of their suf-
tering, instead Of the horror.inspring or
deal Of burning alive, which is the seyerer
penalty often inflicted on insurgent slaves.
the White officers Of the United States,
when found Serving in company with said
slaves" will doubtless be shot or hung in
more considerate aud geutlemanly manner.
Such is the hideous roar of terror aud de.
spair wherewilh the Shareholders Rebellion
betrays its conciousness that the President
has at last aimed blow at its VitalS, and
that success must surely reward loyalty in
the heart aud vigor in the arm that strikes
for the Union. .... ......,...--
At length, after two years of desultory
aud indecisive fighting, the Union musters
courage TO utter the magic word FREEDOM
The Rebellion, quivering to its core and
seeing its doom surely at hand, can make
no better response than MArdsr. tuos7sV
The fault is not that Of Davis. but the
cause. If anything better could be said,
be would doubtless have said it. II is the
fatal necessity OF Wrong that it can only
be upheld-nay, it cannot be upheld it
can only be temporarily defended-by
N'he. -.I .f,H.I sr.A .r.- .a.ia'
"CrO WINS got by blood must be BY blood
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