Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-08-17
National Progress.


Li5eratOr, makes the following record Oh
events, touching abolition Of slavery, tnat
have occurred since the Inauguration oi
President Lincoln, and under an Admin
istrstion which some very extrsyagant,
one sided and:microscopic, though doubt
less very sincere friends of freedom, insist
is "more infamous than that of Buchanan
or Pierce 70
l. Emancipation in Western Virginia.
2. Emancipation in Missouri.
3. Emancipation in the District of Co
lumbia.
4. Emancipation in Maryland.
S. Slavery abolished and forever pro-
hibited in all the Territories.
6. Kansas admitted as free State.
7 Provision made to admit Colorado,
INebrasks, Dscotah and Nevada as free
States.
s. Organization of Idaho. Montana,
Dacotah and Arizona as Free Territories
Recognition of the Independence Of
Il ndyu anu LlUcrih.
10. Three millions Of slaves declared
free by Proclamation of the President,
January l, 1868. .
IL. All Fugitive Slave laws repealed.
II. Interstate slave trade abolished.
13. Negroes admitted to equalrights in
United States Courts, as parties to suits
and as witnesses.
IA. Equality of the negro recognized in
the public conveysnces of the District q
Columbia.
IS. All rebel States prohibited from re-
turning to the Union with slavery.
| I6. Free labor established on numerous
plantations in South Carolina, Louisiana
Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas.
II. Schools for the education Of freed
slaves in South Carolina, Tennessee, and
! in Eastern Virginia-where, till within
three years, to educate the negro wa
: punishable with death.
ls. The wives and children Of all slave
employed as freemen in military and 9th
or service of the United States mad
free.
10. All negroes, bondand free, enrollet
= as part of the military force Of the nation
/ 20. The loyal people of Arkansas, Ten
/, nessee, Louisiana and Florida seeking
1 return to the Union on the basis Of freed
r ON to all, and the abolition and prohib
t ton of slavery.
# 2I. The abolition and prohibition {
Il slavery by an amendment of the Const
Is tuition passed inthe Senate by atwo-third
G majority, and by nearly the same in tn
IS House. Lost by lack of three or for
1t votes, through the influence Of DEM
d cratic members.
IS 81. The nation, through its represent
: tives in Baltimore June s. made the ab
8 Elton and prohibition of slavery the bas
d of its governmental and administratic
p for the future.
%. The Federal government forbidde
O. to employ any man as slave in any c
. pacity.
e "a. One hundred and fifty thousand n
- groes, mostly freed slaves, in the pay ar
6, uniform of the government as soldiers.
- Though much remains to be done
q. redeem the enslsvers aswell asthe ensla
:, ed frem the moral blight of slavery, y
Ia thus much has been done. The nati'
"A is on its way to the full recognition of t
N equality and manhood of the negro
"A fore the law. Then, and only then, "
= the republic be the home of the free Al
Dd the asylum of the oppressed. Then, a
n, only then will it be saved with an ev
"a lasting salvation. The wrongs of the !
na gro are being rightsd.
"A HENRY C. WRIGHT
mt We can now add to the preceding +
We ord the following articles, of no less
on portance in the progress of the nation
are liberty and justice than those which
, Wright has enumerated.
ED /. Abolition of the Fugitive Slave La
DDS of 1898 and 1850.
our 2. Amendment of the law of evidel
9Th 80 that henceforth F" in the course OF
her United States there shall be no exclus
'gt- of any witness on account of color"
Q. Prohibition of the eoastwise 81
'a trade forever, and repeal of all eni
ments regulating that trade.
ted Thus in the words of Mr. Summer
NV whom the country is mainly indebted
az, these last three measures, "the stat
Had book is cleaned of every support OF