The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-06-06


ever necessary, it proceeded solely from
himself as being alone invested by the
Constitution with the direction of the
military power OF the nation, and because
in deciding on the necessity of its appi.
cation in the way which the xgency
before him seemed to demand, he placed
the Government in position from Which
there acas no retreat. The proclamation
to the slaves to weaken the enemy COM
nis the nation irrevocably to make good
the pledge by the utmost exhibitions Of ITS
power. 1t not only creates an obliga-
ton to the bondsmen whose action it is
meant to control, but it as an implied
pledge Of honor to the foreign powers
whose conduct it is designed to influence.
That measure which as Commando in
Chief the President righ'fully adopted
under the Constitution and in accor-
dence with National law, to obtain the
cooperation of the whole race of people,
and which involves both life and free
dom in it's results when proclaimed, was
beyond revocation by either the civil or
military authority of the nation. The
people once slaves in the Rebel Stale
can never again be recognized as such
by the Uni ed States. No judicial
decision, no Legisla. i've action, State or
national, can be admitted to re-enslave
a people who are associated with our
own dcstinies in this war of defense to
save the Government, and whose manu-
mission was deemed essential to the
restoration and preserva ion of the
Union and 10 its permanent peace.
The first movement in this grand sys-
tenn of emancipation has been already
made, under the orders of the President.
1t is eecn in the segregation of the
blacks from their masters, and massing
them at advan ageous positions on the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and the shores
of the Mississippi, as they are drawn
from the interior. Here they are to be
brought within works which they will be
aaght to construct and defend, and
have the contiguous land assigned to
them during the continuance of the
war, to contribute to their sustenance.
Under proper discipline, they will here
learn much to fit them for self-govern-
ment as an independent people, associ-
ated with d kindred race that now
invites them to a congenial climate, and
a soil rich in all the productions best
suited to repay in commerce the nations
of more advanced civilization, for the
protection and assistance they may have
given them in their new homes, with the
Governments into which the are ad-
united.
Mean inc, during The war, the fortified
places these freed men may hold on the
Mississippi, sea coasts and elsewhere,
under the control and with the support
of portions of our armies, will render
the river and coast commerce free to US
and exclude it from the enemy. When
the war ends, large numbers of the
bondsmen, which it will have liberated,
may still be retained, temporarily, and
will be employed, under wages, in exc
cutting the plans for national defense
proposed by the Military Committee of
the last House of Representatives, in
The conversion of the intra-canal navi-
cation along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts
now to considerable extent completed
for small boats, into ship canal from
New Orleans to New York, and in en-
largng the canal now uniting the lakes
and the Mississippi. If the Erie canal
shall also be enlarged, the whole region
of the Mississippi and the A tlantlc will
be insuleted and be invulncrable. The
kindred measure, the Pacific Railroad
designed to carry the military power of
the Republic to the defense of our paci-
ic possessions if ever invaded, will be
the work of European emigrants of our
own blood, hired by the rich domain it
perpctrates and which the nation pre-
scnts as an inheritance to those who shall
be engaged in its construction.
But the mission Of the Afric- Ameri-
can race will not, be concluded in the
region which has been its house of bon
dage. Its destined glory, as a redeem
ed, free and civilized race, is to be
consummated in the American tropics.
They will there infuse vlgor, unity and
enterprise, with aspirations to emulate
the progressive genius of the country of
their birth. They will break the letters
of Cuba, and make it excel the tabled
Hesperides under Cis- Atlantic influences
and he favor of European nations inter-
ested in the commerce of the Indies of
the West, far richer than those of the
Orient. Aided with the capital and
intelligence of the great commercial
powers, they will make the waters of
the Pacific and Atlantic flow through
Central America, and they will bring
their oppressed brethren from he Saba
ras of Africa to Canaan in the New
World.
feel that | have given very imper-
feet outline of the scheme of Secession,
of the manner in which your Chief Mag
istrate has met the exigency, and now
he proposes to make the evils which have
befallen US the sources Of blessings to
our posterity. and to mankind.
1t Is inadmissible and unnecessary
here to do more than glance at this great
theme. Acute observers and some even
who have skill in dealing with details
have found much to complain of in the
Presidents administration. Unaues-
tionably many errors have been COM
mitted. Errors not only noticble to
microscopic vision, but to enlarged minds
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