Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-12
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Some Of the Republican papers are begin.
ing to find but that tht famous emancipation
proclamation is not all their fancies painted
e previous TO its issuance Tho following
from the Springfield RepUblican, promi.
nenb Admtuistration journal in Massachu.
sets, states the dissatisfaction of the mod.
crate Republicans thus forcibly:
"a great many expectations have been
disappointed, and great many confident pre-.
ldiotions have failed Of realization, in the
progress Of this war In nothing has the dis
appointment been greater than IN the results
Expected from the emancipation war policy
by thoss most clamorous for it They we're
very certain that the proclamation would
give the Union a quick and sweepin0
uiumph, aud the President was fereely de-
nouneed by politicians aud papers Of bis own
party for allowing the sacrifice of Northern
men to 90 on, when with a stroke Of his pen
be could remove the csuse OF the rebellion
and make it impotent for mischief II was
said that as soon as liberty should be pro.
claimed to the negroes we should see the
Southern soldiers scattering to their homes to
look after their ehattels and the negroes gen
eraliy revolving and bastentng 10 enlist under
the standard Of the Union; and SO the necss-
slty for further lighting on our part was 10 be
removed. The predictions were made and
repeated with so much confidence that, before
the President issued his proclamation, many
OF his own party had come to consider him
guilty almost to the extent of treason in de-
laying to speak the word which was to act
like magic in tho salvation of the Union
The style OF menace in which the President
was addressed on this subject is fresh in pub
lic recollection, although some who used il
would now be very glad TO have it forgotten r
WELL it ia more than FIVE months since
the President announced his intention 10 pro-
claim emancipation, and two months since the
proclamation was formally made, aud the me-
groes still remain quietly on the Southern
plantations the reoe armies have not dis
Persed to hunt tying negroes, but are larger
and stronger than ever before the market
price OF negroes is ut its highest; the negroes
within our lines show no passionate eagerness
to fight, and even Gen. Hunter has been
obliged to resort to forcible conscriprion to
MI up his negro regiment and that, too,
where the experiment Of making negro sol
diers has been longest in operation. Neither
are the promises of the wonderful effect OF
the procla amatioR upon the people of the
North realized Governor Andrews swarms
do not throng the roads of Massachusetts,
and volunteering has been at O stand still,
As to the political effect OF the proclamation
at the North nothing need be said; the en-
thusiasm it has evoked has all been on the
wrong side; and some of the most ardent ad-
yocates of emancipation have been 80 dis |
heartened by this that they began before the
proclamation had been out O month to talk |
about letting the South go il we cannot sub !
due the rebellion before May. The pretence |
Of some of our malcontents that the proca. |
nation is powerless because II does not de.
clare free the slaves in the loyal States, is not
even spec;ous; it is merely absurd"