The daily Evansville journal., 1863-01-29
LAST NIGHTS REPORT.
GREAT RATIFICATION MEETING.
THE LOYAL MEN OF ARKAN-
SAS NO FING. =. 8
ARKANSAS MILITIA ORGANIZING.
Ratification Meeting.

ST. LOUIS, Jan 2S-A large and en-
thusiastic meeting was held at Turner's
Hall tonight to ratify the Presidents
proclamation. Speeches were made by,
Henry T. Blow, Chas B. Drake, Chas.
p Johnson, Geo. B. Strong, Gen. W. X.
Strong, and several members of the
Legislature, which received immense
applause.
Resolutions were adopted declaring
that slavery was the sole impending
cadse-has been, and is now, the life of
the present rebellion.
That the attempt to ruin this govern
ment this crime, which for cruelty, per-
fidy and infamy no language can char
acterize, and the American nation is
solemnly bound to prevent that crime, at
whatever cost of blood and treasure, and
if necessary thereto to destroy the whole
mass of those attempting its perpetration
expressing the belief that all efforts at
conciliation or arrangement are utterly
futile, and the country can only be saved
by prosecuting the war in every form
and every extremity known to civilized
nations, until the last vestige of rebel
power is swept from the soil of America;
that slavery, by its own murderous act
in attempting to destroy the government
has absolved the American Government
and people from all obligations to pre-
serve and project slavery in the regions
where the rebellion exists and has i'm
posed with the power of irresistible ne
cessity, if the nation itself would live.
The holding back from the destruction
of slavery, and upholding and sustaining
rebellion, as it is, cannot be defended
upon any ground of justice, expedency
or constitutional or moral obligation, and
can find no apologists except among
those who prefer slavery to their country.
That the war power of the nation, as ex-
erted against its enemies, whether for
eign or domestic, is wholly unfettered by
the constitution of the United States.
That the President, in time of war, is
authorized to use that power as his judg-
ment directs for the subjugation of such
! enemies, and whoever invokes the con-
stitution to trammel the Presidents S ac-
ton, is the public's enemy, or deceived
by traitors in disguise
| That entertaining the foregoing views,
and impeled by solemn sense of ne
| cessity which the South itself has created
to overthrow its attempt to plunge the
country into irretrievable ruin, and con-
sidering no measure too severe for that
that purpose, and profoundly impress
ed with the belief that the de-
struction of slavery is utterly indspen-
sable to the salvation of our free in
stitutions, firmly holding that the Pres
ident's proclamation of the 1st of Janua-
ry, was a legitimate exercise of the pow
er invested in him as commander-in
chief of the army an navy, and was i'm
periously demanded by the public exi-
gency and may be expected to eventuate
in the overthrow of the rebellion, we
do without qualification or reserve, ap-
prove and applaud the issuing of that
proclamation, and do call on every pa
triotic citizen of the United States, what
ever may have been his private views of
the expediency Of such an act, to accept
it Loyalty as thing accomplished, and
rally to the support of the President in
this great and vital blow at the only in
testine foe that has ever dared assail
American free institutions.