Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-05-29


Goyernment--and the command Of its armies
belongs has labored to avert the dangers with
which we are encompassed, by various meas
ures in aid Of the armed forces he has sent to the
held; He would save the Union, with OF with
out slavery-would save il in any way, at what
! ever cost. The Union, in peace, under the Con-
stitution was again and again his overture. If
there could be no assurance Of this with rebels
bent on subverting the republic 10 establish nm
oligarchy Of stakeholder, then 10 the loyal
friends Of free government in the South, he ten
dered emancipation with compensation, and
deliverance by colonization from a war Of races
which could only end in the determination of
the negro race, or amalgamation with it. This
failing after nearly two years of expostulaton
and fOrbenrance, to exert to the utmost the milf
tary power conferred on him under the Consti-
tuition, the President felt himself constrained TO
issue that Proclamation of freedom to the slaves
who were in any sense the enemy's sinews of
war. Some of them were found fighting in
their ranks-nultitudes in erecting and defend
ing their fortifcatiOns--the greater mass in the
! fields at home, enabling their CONSUMPTION TO
drag every able-bodied white man into The fields
of battle against the Government who when
there, are literally fed and paid by the products
of that slave labor to secure and extend which,
was the pronounced object of the war.
This proclamation of the President was a re-
luctant advance, because however necessary il
proceeded solely from bimselfas being alone in
W 'ile cOns,tuIion WIN tne direction OF
:I. PUwer VI tns nauon, anu because IN de-
Da s"1 ~, Vi .s aPplcSelon ~ 'ne
/ placed the Government in position from lehich
there 1ods retreat. The proclamation to the
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,,,a,t ss5:I;,;a', ~ ~ o'oe IL
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5ono, 20 tI,o eo,,;I,, 4, 2
designed 10 ;nInenca That n,easnre Which as
1k;af a.. p-aa;Jo. ;tSnl;.,
odo,,,od dar az ,,,,st;t,;o,, II -, 1870
a,,oa ,,;tt .,as;,,,,I lo',, .. sn; az H. ~
t;on oftho wbolo race Of noonla snd uh;o' -
yolvos hotb l;f "a foaJd,,, z! ;t .aa,,i,s -,
i;naJ VOC bos,,.,,d o,,,'oat; H., AZ
civil or n;j;I.rv a;,tbn,;ty of Az nst;aD m.
neonle once sIayes in tho rohol st.tas 80, ,,,a,
i aaoai, H. rooon;.ai ~ ,.I - r. T I:.
i States No inS;cai doo;s;or ~
1 tion. state or national can be aJmitted 70
slave peone who are associated with onr oyr !,
l.deetin;es i, tb;s ,,a, ,f dae,s a. . IL - -
ornment and whose man,n,;ss;or ,,,os deassoeJ
essential 10 Tho ros,ornt;o od ,,rosa,o,;,e,, ~
tbe IIn;on aud 10 tS ern,anant Ipaeco poco u
The frst uovor,enF in Az; r,rranJ s,,s,or, 81
Emoncinotion has hoon a1raodS . mol 49,.
orders Of fbe President n ;s seen in the saores
oatons of the b1scLs from tho;r r1.stors 81
Inassino them at advantaoeo,,s ,os;tiors ~, tb
Atlanta and Gnlf coasts ana ne sboros ~ H.
Mississnn; ne fbev are drawn fro,, nc ;ntaro
Here they are to he brn,,gbt ;tbin rsnls yvb;.I,
thev will he TAUGHT 10 constrnct a "A Safd a',d
have the contigons land assigneJ 70 tboro Jn
ino the continuance of The yvar 10 contribnta e.
their sustenanca TTnder rro,,er 1;sc;,dino 49,
will learn nucb 70 At the,n fdr solf q,a,,o,1,,,
as an independent reonIe. associated with a lin.
red race that now invites them to a congenial
climate and soil rich in all the productions
best suited to repay in commercethe nations of
more advanced civilization, for the protection
and assistance they may have given them in
their new homes with the governments into
winch they are admitted.
Meantime, during the war the fortified places
these free men may hold on the Mississippi, sea
coasts and elsewhere, under the control and with
the support OF portions of four armies, will render
the river and coast commerce free to us and ex
ciude 1t from the enemy. When the war ends
large numbers of the bondsnen, which it viii
have liberated, may still be retained temporarily,
and VIII be employed under wages, in executing
the plans for National defence proposed by the
Military Committee OF the last House OF Repre-
sentatives, in the conversion of the intra-canal
navigation along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts
now to considerable extent completed for small
boats INTO ship canal, from New Orleans to
new ork, and IN enlargIng the canal now uni
1ng the Lakes and the mississippi lfthe Erie
OahaI shali also De enlarged the whole region OF
the MlssisslpPl and the Atlantic Will be insula-
TED and lnvnlnerable. The kindred measure
the racine hailroad-desIgncd to carry the ml-
II I1l'y power OF the tepubhc TO the defence ofour
racine possessions II ever invaded, VIII be the
work oil european emigrants OF our own blood,
lured oy tne rch domain 1t penetrates, and
which the alton presents as an inheritance to
those who shall engage in its construction. a'
COLONIZATION.
But the mission of the Africa American race
will not be concluded in the region which has
as redeemed, free and civilized race, is 10 be
consummated in the American tropics. They
WI, VIII mere iniuse ylgor, UNITY and enterprise
WIN "l'ohS W e'nui"'e ue pios esslFe gem