Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-12-19
WHOLE NUMBER 73O.
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tember, was running It's assigned period 10
the beginning Of the New Year A month
later the final Proclamstion came, H.
cludidg the announcement that colcied met
OF suitable condition would be received IL,
the war service The policy OF Emsncipa-
tion and OF employing black soldiers gave
to the future new aspect, about which
hope and fear and doubt contended in 'un.
certain conliet .. fsi3 rHr rs g9tuos
According TO our political system, a. .
matter Of civil administration, the govern
ment had no lawful power to effect enamel.
patton in any State, and for long time Is
bad been hoped that tho rebellion could be
suppressed without resorling TO it as mill
tary measure. II was oil the while deemed
possible that the necessity for it might
come, and il it should the crisis OF the oon-
test would I hen be presented. oa oh
1t came, and, as was anticipated, was fol.
lowed by dark and doubtful days. EIevea
months having now passed, we are permit
| ted to take another review. The rebel
borders are pressed still further back, and
by the complete opening Of The Mississippi,
the country dominated over by the rebell.
ion is divided iuto distinct parts, with mo
practical communication between them.--
Tennessee and Arkansas have bean substsu'
italy cleared Of insurgent control, aud in.
| luential citizens in each, ow Dsrs OF slaves
aul advocates of slavery st the beginning
of the rebellion, now declare openly for
emancipation 10 their respective States.
OF those States not included in the emsn.
cipation proclaim alton, Maryland and Mis-.
souri. neither of which three years ago
would tolerate any restraint upon the ex.
tension of slavery toto new territories, only
dispute now as to the bes: mode OF remov.
ing it within their own limits OF those
who were slaves At the beginning Of the re
bellion, 100000, are now in the United
States military service, about one half Of
hch number actually bear arms in the
rauks, thus giving the double advantage Of
taking SO much labor from the iusurgens
cause, and supplying the places which 9th
erwise must be filed with as many white
men. .,7 s+,L
So far as tested, it il dm:ult to saJ
they are not as good soldiers AS suy.5d5u
No servile nsurreclion or tendency to ylo-
lence or cruelty has marked the measures
of emancipation aud aiming the blaeks.--
Those measures have been much discussed
in foreign countries, aud con;e nporary with
such discussion, the tone of public sehtimens
there is much improved. -rs z,,s-o,9
AT home the same measures have been
fully discussed, supported, criticised aud
denounced, aud the annual elections follow.
ing are highly eucourains 70 those whose
official duty it is to bear the country
through this great trial. 'a '..lsl ias''a'
Thus we have the new reckoning: Tue
crisis which threatened to divide tue frlends
of the Union is passed. Looking now ~
the present and future, and with refersncs
to resumption of the national authority ii
the States wherein that authority has been
suspended, have thought 6t to issue -
proclamation, copy of which is herewith
transmitted. Ga examination of this proc
lamaton it will appear, as is believed, that
nothing is attempted beyond what ia amply
justified by the constitution.
Trne, the form OF an oath is given, bat
none is cOerced to take it. Tie man ID
only promised pardon ia case be volunta.
ry takes the oath Tue Consultation au.
thorizes the Executive to grsnt or With.
hold the pardon at his own absolute discrs.
tion, and this includes the power to grant
on terms as is fully established by judicial
that if in any of the States named. Sale
Government shell be recoSn zed aud gnar.
anteed by the Uuired States, and that III.
der it the State shall on tue constiLuli nj
conditions be projected against invasion
aud domestic violence The constitutional
obligations of the United States to garaates
to every State of the Uuion Republican
form of Government aud 10 protect the
State in the case stated, is explicit aud full.
But why tender the benefits Of this provis-
ion only to State Government set up ia
this particular way. a.a,o -
This section Of the Constitution contein.
plates case wherein the element within
State favoeable to Republican governments
within the Union may be too feeble for an
opposite aud hostile element, external or
even within the State, and such are precia-
ely the cases with which We are now deal.
ing An attempt to guarantee and profees
revived Stale government constituted
in whole or in p, p,eponderating part from tbs
very element against whose hostility ssui
yioleuce it is to be protected, is simply alb.
surd. There must be q test by which ~
separate the opposing elements, SO as 10
bu Id only from what is sound. Tbat testis
sufieently liberal one which accepts -
sound whenever will make sworn rscants.
ton Of bis former uusouuduess But il ts
Le proper TO require lest OF adnissioh
10 The political body an oath Of allegiance
TO the United States aud TO the Union IN.
der it, Why not also to the laws aud proca.
nation in regad d to slavery. These laws
and proclamations were enacted aud pas
forth for the purpose Of aiding In the sup
preston Of the rebellion. 10 give thea
their fullest effect, there bad TO be pledge
lof their maintenance. 81, SD essal
In my judgment they have aided, aod VIII
further aid, the cause for which they we're TO-
! tended. To now abandon them would be not
only TO relinguish lever OF OUT power. bot
wonld also be a crnel aud astounding breach
of faith. While l remain in my present posl-
ton, L shall not attsmpt to retract or modify
the emancipation proclamation, nor shall ~
iurn to slavery any person who Is fres by the
terms OF that proclamation, or by any OF the
acts OF Congress. For these and othsrkTea-