Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-01-14

The sims," he said, ''spsrss both races from the
evils III sudden arrangement" Enforcing its SUI
peyior advantages to the slaves he said I" 1t saves
them from the vagrant restitution which must
largely attend emancipation in localities where
their numbers very great"
The responsibilities entailed on the Govern
ment-not, be it observed, by gradual, but by i'm
mediate emancipation--are thus stated and urged
by the committee whose representation the Presi-
dent transmitted to Congress week or two ago
Can it be expected that any outside national bene
cence zeal should do for the freedman than u has
done for the national invalid soderi What, then must
become of If left to outside care That care Will not
cover than small fraction Of his necessities when
pushed 10 its utmost extent rs moi an expenditure
hundreds Of thousands but Of millions, that mast be forced
IN this business Shall the Government, which will be
forced by pity, shame, necessity, tl expe0d large
amount Of money before the case passes beyond lis
care spend il gnorany at haphazard, without system or
method without the aid Of tho beat wisdom that can be
broupht 10 bear the subject and without studying the
best aud nobIes material and moral in the
How all this be effected except by Government bu
Teau in which all tho scattered lights the subject
concenraed the opportunities and facilities Afforded by
existing machinery studied and the operations OF the Gov
ernent thorough bly, ordinAted7 The fully
made out There ought to be, grounds Of economy,
humanity and necessity Government Bureau Of Eman
cpaton
The President is asked, in case he establishes a
Bureau of Emancipation, to select the " wsest and
ablest head the nation affords for the chief Of the
new organization"
And if these the nations responsibilities in
Cured by immediate emancipation" they must
be met AMI met speedily. Every consideration of
humanity conspires with every dictate of justice
to enforce on Congress the duty Of providing some
means for saving the negro race from the annihi-
ation that awaits it under our present policy, un-
less something be done to remedy the evils calling
aloud for correction. The believers in immediate
emancipation are pledged to vindicate the claims
of their theory by at least redeeming the life of
the freedman from destruction by hunger aud dis
ease and those who believe that gradual emancipa-
ton is none the less the plan marked out by Gods
providence than by hannah wisdom, when practi-
caly applied to the ameioration Of social evils,
are still bound by the plainest considerations Of
moral obligation to aid in mitigating the woes
brought on suffering people by the violation OF
natural and historic laws 1t should be with these
latter no longer question of politics, but CUES
ton Of humanity They not to be insensible
to the cry of want because they may deem that
want the result Of folly or ndscretion the part
Of their neighbors; nor can the cool indifference
of many anti slavery zealots to the misercs entail
ed by immediate emancipation excuse men of diff
ferent political convictions from the duty Of help
ing to save those who are ready to perish Still
more reprehensible is the disposition of any who
would willingly permit these miseries to go unre
lieyed for the sake of pointing moral in their
name against political adversaries. When black
men are dying by hundreds from famine and dis
ease, white men should be able to desist long
enough from their ordinations and recriminations
to perform the Offices Of charity and respond to the
impulses of humanity.