The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-12-16
[Eor the Regis er.l
The View Proclamation.

percAdnt for proclama tons. The emperor
OF China when he called all nations to be
hold him annihilate the British barbarians,
and Santa Ana when he prophesied, in the
name of God and Liberty, the utter de
struction of the American army, were not
more confident in the efficacy Of this mode
of warfare than is Mr.. LINCOLN. We
thought he had already discovered, that ii
his proclamations were of the smallest ac-
count, the war would have been ended when
he issued the great brutnm tulnaen OF Sep
tember, 1862; but new and apparently in
surmountable difficulties will arise, and he
imagines that a proclamation will at least
put matters in a condition that can be un-
derstcod; like the quack who in every emsr-
gency endeavored to get his patient into
convulsions; "for," said he, 81 can manage
fts!"
But this last "buIl at comet" this pan
aces for every i'll, is the most extraordinary
of all. We have noticed for many montha a
mad race among the radicals for the most
ultra position on the negro question; and
we believe that If the conservative element
would agree to day that all the slaves must
be free at once, the great body of the radi
Gals would say, that it is not sufficient
they must be placed on terms OF perfect
equality with the white race. Mr.. LINCOLN
has gone, however, beyond that, for be
treats the case Of the negro IN some re
spects Of much more importance that that
of the white man.
The President offers pardon TO the
so-caled Confederate STATES, with certain
exceptions, and upon certain conditions
We do not by any means object to the
offer of terms to the rebels, but We do OBJ
ject that the. exception is so large, for it
includes nearly ell the men of iaduence in
the South, and they will be able to render
the proclamation nugatory. But it is not
of this nor of the conditions of the pardon,
no, of the monstrous doctrine of State sui
eide, that We would now speak. We object
that distinction is made in favor of the
negro. Thus the proclamation excepts
from pardon all who shall engage iu any
way in treating negroes in the service of
the United States, or white persons having
them in charge, in any other manner than
as prisoners Of war; but there 10 no sxceP-
tion whatever against those who have
treated white soldiers with cruelty or desc
Grated their remains. he who took the
skull Of some poor fellow who died at Bull
Run, aud made il into drinking cup; he
who took be bones Of another for drum
sticks; he who placed the head of still an
other on pole at Chickamauga; all these
shall so wholly acauit, like they who mur'
der the wives and children Of the white
Unionists of Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri. When those cruel men taken
upon themselves the new and strange oath
which the President has invented, their
garments, though reeking with the blood of
white Cnioni.ts, shall become as driven
snow in the sight of Father Abraham. Blu.
if any rebel shall dare to lay one stripe on
q colored man-f he shall dare to treat
him otherwise than with all the considers-
tion Of prisoner of war-thers shall be
no remission for that n,-his life shall paw
the penalty Of his rebellion, and his goods
and lands shall be eon6scated.
Let it not be disguised that Brother
JONATHAN, in whose welfare we sll feel so
much interest, Is indeed very i'll. Young,
plsthoric, and confident in his ability to
bear any course that might be prescribed,
be has submitted to the trestmen
Of the novices st Washington until
his energies are we'll nigh spent
Under their alarming course of depletion,
be has become emaeiated and hollow cheek.
ed, and be reels with debility. he may
yet live, however; but nothing can save
him but the fostering care of bis kind old
physician. Let it be our la
bor therefore, to place him under the care
Of that great physician. MARSHALL,