Year: 1862

press, that wonderful and instructive
modern index o. the passing opinions
Of tho times If so, have you not re.
Gently seen there signs that startled youP
advice, nudaciou+ly given in certain
quarters, that IL IL time the army should
take the power into its own hand and
demand the dismissal from your Cabi-
net Of the best men in it Have you
no facts in your own experience going
to prove that such audaeity has not
shown its head without power and num-
bers that render it formidable? do
not fear il not now, If it is strangled at
its birth. But he tempts Providence,
who suffers that spirit of anarchy to
grow aud gather strength before
striking blow for its destruction.


You cannot be ignorant Of the design
of these men. Tie that runs may read
it. They see that they are drifting to-
ward Emancipation. They see that tho
demand from the masses Of our peopls
for this great measure is becoming, day
by day, more importunate. They know
that majority of your Cabinet favor it.
They feel assured, as to yourself, that
if the option remain with you, it is but
question Of time and of form when and
how a Proclamation Of Emancipation
will be issued. They perceive but one
power that has any chance successfully
to arrest this stream and co your ac
ton. Openly they appeal to it. Open
ly they declare that Cabinet Ministers
must be imposed upon you by military
dictation. No other course is left them
to effect their great object, namely, to
perpetuate among us that Slavery which
the nation, with determination which
increases from day to day, is resolved
to uproot.


One blow may be dealt By you against
these men that will crush, forever, their
reasonable cabas. 1t is the same that
lays the foundation ofpeace, and assures,
beyond possiblo peradventure, the down
fall Of the rebellion. They know their
danger. They read Emancipation in
all the signs of the times. It is to them
. the handwriting on the wall, fOreshad-
owing their political fate. What wonder
that they resort to desperate means to
arrest its advent?


Shall they be allowed time, by insid-
ious argument, to entice the unwary
into the ranks of sedition By prompt
action alone eau you prevent it. 1t is
idle to await uDanimity. Men acqui-
esce in a thousand things, once right.
eouSly aud boldly done, to which, if
proposed to them in advance, they might
find endless objections


Do you hesitate? Will you delay
the blow ? See to it, that when, at last,
your resolution is taken, the power may


not already have passed away from your
hands.


The 23d of Septembr approaches
the date when the sixty day notice you


have given to the rebels will expire
expire without other reply to your
warning than the invasion Of Mary aud
and of Pennsylvania. Is it to rest thert2


Patiently We have waited the time. Is
nothing to follow 2 Are our enemies
to boast that we speak brave words
and tn, re an end oft?


What day, if you but will it, may
the 22d of September become The


very turning point in the nations fate |


A day to the rebels of despair, to every
loyal heart. of axultant rejoicing A
day ofwhich the anniversary will bo
celebrated with jubilee while the Amer
lean Union endures A day to bo re-
membered not in our land alone, but
wherever Humanity molrns over the
wrongs of the slave, or rejoices in his
liberation gl-


You are the first President to whom


the opportunity was ever offered eonsti-


turionally to inaugurate such a day
Ifyou fail usInow, you may be the last
Lift, then, the weight from the heart
of this people. Let them breathe free


once more. Extirpate the blighting


curse, living threat throughout long


years past, that has snitten at last with
desolatiou a land to which God has
granted everything but wisdom and jus.
tice. Give back to the nation its Hope
and Faith in Future Of Peace and un'
disturbed Prosperity. Fulill-you can
far more than fulfill tho brightest an.
J ticipations of those who, in the name
= of II uman Freedom, aud in the face OF
threats that have ripened into terrible
realities since, fought that battle which


placed you where you nov stand.


ROBERT DALE OWEN.
= New YoRK, Sept. II, 1862.
; AMONG the facts developed by the in
quiries recently made by the Military
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