, 1863-02-03

The Copperhcad press md spouters have set |
up the cry that the Proclamation h,s divided |
the North, united the South, aud ruined the |
Union. The wish is father to the thought.
The Proclamation has not divided tho Rcpnb-
licans. They were never more united; nor
has it 4diyidcd'' or alienatcd any Democrats
who love tho Union bcttct than slavery in the
rebel States. And those who inyeigh SO
Hercely against 1t are the class Of persons
whose sympathics hare been with the rebels
from the day Fort Sumter fell. -
The N. 7. Tribune exposes the lying pre-
lenses. of the blatant Coppcrheads In the fo1o
ing style:
For fifteen OF sixteen months Of this trc.
:. .mcudous conflict, our Government adhered
strictly to the "Border state" policy OF con
serving slavery ns we'll as the Union. This
of the pzoclarnations or orders Of Fremont,
Jim Lane, Hunter, and Phelps, proIering
freedom to the slaves Of rebels, and they were
accordingly suppressed. President Lincoln
grieved aud disat1ectcd \ large majority Of
those who had voted to Ikke lin President,
In order to so conduct the war as to concil-
late his political opponents.
He went far and staid long on this tack, hpt
did not succeed. Tom Seymour of Connect
lieut. vehcmcnt1y denounced tho war months
before the President showed any favor to the
emancipation policy. Senator Wall. the Able
Farmer editor, who is now in the
rebel army, the Philadelphia sympa-
thizers, and clouds more such, were
! as rampantly dis1oJal before the ed Of
| September as they have bcen> since, Hofatio
| Seymour's antiLincoln speeches were no1ess
bitter before than since tbs premonitory pro-
clamation Of freedom. Thcgrcat mass Of the
Democratic party refused to SUPPORT Union,
tickets in 1851 aa emphaticallJ as in 1852. The
great body Of their politicians and wire
workers were US bitterly if not rs openly hos
tile to the war in its first as in its second year.
Treason has been no more openly talked in
i our streets nor blazoned In our anti-Admin-
istration journals since last September than it
was fourteen months earlier; 11d we heard as
much Democratic chucklng over the rc5uir Of
Bull Run US over any national disast.r Of the
last four months. The pnrrot:,.ise iterations
in our bar-rooms and q. street corners that
The emancipation policy has divided the
may pc -epeatcd and rcassertcd till doqmsday,
Snr they will still he lies, and nothing else.
| That the proclamation has not "united the
South against the national cause, the mes
sage Of the newly y-cEosen Governor Cannon
Of Delaware, the. election of emancipa
Senator by the ncw Legislature Of Missouri
Ind the appointment as q. s. Senator from
Maryland Of ex- Gov. Hicks, who declares thai
peace cannot be permanently restored 20 oul
country till slavery is expelled from 1t, bca'
witness. The rising Free-Labor party it
North Carolina, the thoroughly emancipation
attitude of loyal West Virginia, and tho ten
dency to emancipation Of the formidable loya
party in Southern Louisiana, a]l attest that Qu
Union is to be restored on tie basis Of fret
labor or it cannot be restored at all.
The President gave the Border State polio,
fully eighteen months fair trial. After III
expiration Of fifteen months, he gare publ
notice that lie should persist in it but thrc
r, months longer. He had previously proclaim
ed that he should be wholly governed By til
consideration of fidelity to the Unipn-thn
he should sayc the Union .cih slavery, 1cithos
slavery or partly ,rith and partly srithont it
holding every thing else subordinate to tn
preservation or rcstoration Of our Nationa
integrity. And he has acted in strict accord
! ance With these professions: Haying tried Ion
and arduously to save the Union nth SLAYER,
! he proposes henceforth to save it ,cifhom-ti1s
l is ut the expense Of slavery III the thorough
! rebel States and districts,
I Congress, which did not approve Of hi
r Border State policy, does most heartily Al
prove st that on which he has now entered. tt
, approval of both Houses is hearty and con
! pletc.
I 1t is NOT merely the Administration, Their
+ forc-it is the Goyernmcnt-that says 1T
I the end that the Union may live, it has bccou
, Indispensable that slavery should die!''