Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-19


pIoded Abolition PrOph hesics-How
the Negro was TO End the War-The
Negro Bubble Bursting-The False
Prophets Adhering to their Folly
The Emancipation Proclamation
and its Failure.
"Sound the good old chorus of Liberty
forever" shouted Greeley in The Tribune,
when he was urging Lincoln to issue his
Emancipation Proclamation, ''and three
times three hundred thousand brave and
naturalized Yankees who have never smelt
powder, are ready, bounty or no bounty, to
die for the country" a million of men
with two muskets each-one for himself
and one for slave-would start at once for
the South" Then, when the President is
sued his preliminary proclamation in Sep
tember, 1862, Greeley again shouted:
by q single blow he (the PresidenD has
palsied the right arm of the rebellion.
Slavery is the root of the rebellion; he digs
IL up Jy the roots. Property in slaves, the
appalling events of the sttwo years show,
is dangerous to the existence OF the nation; !;
he destroys such property. The rebels are de-
pendent for their daily subsistence upon
their slaves; he makes such SlareS Jreenlen. AS
slaves they are the mere subjects OF rebels,
10 UOll lOT Jllelll, W UC uScu ny IIlCili
beasts of burden; as freemen they are the
loyal allies of free Government, asking
only in return the protection which such a
Government gives to the humblest citizen.
By word the President transforms State
sunk in the semibarbarism of q medieval
age to the light and civilization of the Nine
teenth Christian Century. AS it is not eX-
travagant to say that God had hid away
this continent till the human race had
reached its manhood and was fit to enter
upon so fair an inheritance, so it Is simple
statement of truth to say that in all the
ages there has been no act OF one man and
OF one people so sublime as this emancipa-
ton of race-no act so fraught with good
for the sons of men in all time to come."
A few days later Greeley grouped the
advantages sure to flow from the emanci-
patton edict in these predictions:
"Though we have been chary of predic-
tions hitherto, the broad light thrown upon
it by the Immediate past enables as TO read ,cih
considerable certainty a page Of the future. We
are enabled, therefore, 10 make 'cith confidence
the JolLo,oing proga sttcdtions: t,.
II. We predict that the 1st of January,
1868, will prove most important and au-
spicious era in the history of our country.
So We predict that jeff. Davis will think
twice before he gives effect to his well
known purpose of denuding the Cotton
States of their able-bodied whites up to the
age even of fifty-tive years, in order to hurl
them on the Union armies along his frontier
49, We predict that it will be found much
easier to induce the slaves on the great
plantations to stop work next Christmas
for their annual saturnalia, than to 90 back
to their unpaid tasks on the morning after Ne,c
Years.
81 We predict that the sympathizers in
the Free States with the Shareholders re-
bellion will have hard work to Keep up the
COURAGE of their Southern brethren during the
nert three months, and that earnest efforts a0ill
be made By these cOmpdtrtots to bring about az.
accommodation before the day Of emancipation
And the New York Independent chimed in:
"Congress is in dispute over bill to arm
and equip 100000 negroes to serve in the
war. Let it stop the debate! The case is
settled; the problem is solved; the argument
is done. Let the recruiting sergeants beat
their drumsi The next levy of troops must
not be in the North, but on the plantations
Marshal them into line by regiments and
brigades! The men that have picked cotton
must now pick flints! Gather the great
third army! For two years Che Government
has been searching, in an enemy's country,
for path to victory; only the negro can find
ii! Give him gun and hayonet, and let him
point the way! The future is fair: God
AND THE NEGRO are TO saue The republic!
'sThe interval between the destruction
and the salvation of the republic is measur-
ed by two steps: one is emancipation; the
other military successes. The first is taken;
There is butone answer: BY THE NEGRO
''The negroes are the final reliance Of the
Government. They are the forlorn hope OF
the Republic. They are the last safe-keeperS
of the good cause We must make alliance
with them, or our final success is imperil-
ed"
Well, two years have come and gone
since those who put faith in the teachings
of the Tribunes and Independents were de-
luded by the differences quoted above. Who
has seen the three times three hundred
thousand brave and naturalized Yankees
ready to die for their country, "bounty or
no bounty" to the tune of the good old
chorus of liberty?" Who has seen them
Let taxpayers answer! Who has seen the
millions of men with two muskets each
starting at once for the SouthP" Who has
seen them? Let Lincoln's conscriptions
and the securing of the earth for men white
and black to go as substitutes and "die for
the country" of the "brave and naturalized
Yankees tell! Who has seen the right
arm of the rebellion palsied by Lincoln's
single blow, or the realization of a single
one of the fine promises made by Abolition
destructiyes having control Of the Federal
Administration
Now the negro bubble is beginning to
burst. The leading Abolition organ of New
England-Charles Summers pet journal, the
editor of which is in England, where he
was sent to negotiate with the rebel am
bassador for the dissolution of the Union
on the basis of emancipation, The Boston
Commonwealth, gives 1t up! Read what it
says: ~
from The Boston Commonwealth
''San,bo doesn't move, Notwithstanding that
Gen. Sherman is ready to help him, and
there must be million and a half of slaves
in the States that are Immediately affected
by the operations af the hero of Atlanta
Really, tie ,oorld soiU begin TO think that old
Tom Carlyle ,ods right, AND THAT SAMBo
DOESN'T MEAN TO WORK OR FIGHT OF HIS
OWN MOTION. We have been waiting
through three years for an insurrection of
slaves, and it seems that zoe might as ,oelhave
looked for rising in a graveyard. But never
say diev-and the men and brethren of the
South may yet vindicate their title to man
hood. Who lives shall see--y he should Hre
Io11 enOA0h and be Iop1-si0hted." 10