The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-01-27

/ all the warmth of rude zeal. About
this period it was that his immortal note
was written to Horace Greeley. But all
was without avail On went the crazy
South. and Europe seemed trembling in
the balance.
Then il was thst Mr.. LINCOLN saw and
realized that the insurrectiOn had as
sumed all the proportions of great war
The dove of peace, which so long and
fondly he had painted to his soul, as how
ering on the skirts of the dun and angry
but scattered clouds of battle, was now
devoted and swallowed up in their con
centrated and fierr folds. Rising with
the occasion. Mr. LINCOLN issued his pre-
liminary Emancipation Proclamation,
In his Judgment, il was necessary as q
war measure: it was due to the state OF
Foreign Relations, which then, to all in
tents. were treating the South as bel
ligcrcnt. 1t was, furthermore, an act of
amnesty which the South had days of
grace enough Afforded them to embrace.
1t was ABRAHAM LINcoLN's last appeal to
the Southern men in arms to restore the
Union as it ,eas! The appeal was un-
needed. All that man could do, this
good and wise Magistrate had done for
the cause which was then called conserv
ative. And now the blow was struck
The Emancipation Edict was issued. And
the same calm and firm voice tells us that
it will not be revoked.
Following up this policy, he has pro
tected and treated the freedmen as citi-
zens, in their degree He has invoked
the policy of compensated emancipation:
but if this bolt of war must strike the
innocent with the guilty, nevertheless it
will fall:-nay, it has fallen. The ava
may put it back. BY the wisdom and
fiTmness of Mr.. LINCOLN, the worm has
been crushed ont at the root Of our po
litical tree, and which for so long has
threatened us with political DEATH
Thank God it was not reserved for us,
amid our country's monumental ruins, to
behold it as 1.-The worm that never dies"
If Mr.. LINCOLN had faltered in this cri-
sis ! who shall imagine the horrors into
which backward step would have
plunged as!
{. And ipr.in this sp~.seessns bcfio1d
the picture and contrast it with our con-
dition at the beginning of the war
Whatever may be the result of this negro
clement (and sufficient for the day is
the evil thereof: we will not hesi-
tote to consider what shall be done with an
ulcer when life depends upon its prompt
extirpation y we now find the disease
the almost fatally terminated disease-in
process of a sound cure. The negro
question is at rest forever, as 4 cause of
discord, i'll this noble land, the last hope
of Freedom on earth-and yet-who can
doubt it-dcstined to be her standard
bearer until all the oppressed of man
shall rise unshackled? Next: our For
eign policy is settled-our name more
dreaded abroad than ever before for
that very Proclamation has forced the
world on the issue of Freedom or Sla-
very-Barbarism or Progress! Well
may the diplomatic tricksters of the old
rotting systems fear their people on such
an issue. Next: we see the agitation of
slavery transferred where it belongs,
from the North to the South; and this
by the voluntary act of the citizens of
Slave. States. Whatever cavillers may
say to the contrary, the elections in Della
ware, Maryland and Missouri expressed
the unbiased sentiments of their people.
They have seen the mischieyous extent
to which Slavery has gone, and with zeal
Gus and fervid hearts and uplifted hands
they have gone about the work of its ex-
termination. Indeed the zeal of these
reformers goes beyond that of the most
fanatic of the old. Abolitionists. AL
ready Tennessee trembles with the
ground swell and Kentucky more than
thrills with the pulsation. Virginia in
augurates emancipation, and Maryland
is agitating the policy of making eman-
cipation Immediate. And beside these
magnificent results, can we overlook the
African Soldiers who are saving thou
sands of white lives; who are distinguish
ing themselves in the camp and in the
field; who are, in fact, the pioneers in
the redemption of their race from i-nor
ance, woe barbarism, pauperism and
contempt? Over almost insurmountable
prejudices; within miraculously short
period of time, these wonderful results
have been reached by Almighty God
whose instrument ABRAHAM LINCOLN has
been BY His grace and for this mission
he has been guided and upheld His
steps have been gradual progress, direct
ed 10y the power that marked charts for
the prophets.
Again we ask-Had ABRAHAM LIxco..x
faltered or turned back in this work.
what would have been the condition of
the revolt? What the conditions of our
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