Year: 1862

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tion.


(Ffom the PhtSburg Post)


The President has at length yielded to the
Radicals in their demands for a proclamation
the last card in the Abolition game has been
played and the country will see it, like all theiI
experiments, total and ridiculous failure. All
we regret is that the President had not nine
months since given the Radicals all they demand
ed. Had he done so, their programme would
six months ago have been proven a failure, and
the country would now be prepared to follow
different counsels.


(Fiom the New York World
President Lincoln in his address to the bor-
der States Congressman warned them that the
pressure upon him to issue an emancipation
proclamation was so great that he feared he
might yet be compelled to yield. His distrust
OF his own resisting power has since been fully
justified. Indeed this yielding to pressure is
MIR. Lincolns fatal weakness He yielded to
pressure in urging General Scott to fight the
first battle of Bull Run; he yielded to pressure
in giving Colonel Miles another command when
he should have been shot; he yielded to pres
sure in disconcerting Gen. McClellan's plans
'"So Wy piSihdtuICf stdfdHCc
at the West; he yielded to pressure in so med
ding with the peninsular campaign as to cause
it to mscarrv.


No man ever yet administered successfully
the affairs of great nation without back
bone incapable of yielding to pressure"


This extraordinary proclamation will bring
no advantages to the negro race at all proper
tionate to the distractions it throws in the way
of reunion. 1t is certain that the Union will
never be restored till this i'll advised action of
the Government is reversed. 1t converts every
inhabitant of the South into zealot whose all
is embarked in the success OF the rebellion
The idea that they will succumb to threats, that
they will vote on compulslon, that they will feel
| terror, or misgiving, or anything but increased
Indignation at such proclamation, shows small
knowledge either of human nature or of the
temper of the Southern mind Such a procla-
nation can not possibly be enforced, and its on
ly effect will be to strengthen the determination
OF the rebels to fight to the very last. They
are shut up to a lane which has no tprning.-
When the military power OF the rebels is bro
ken, we have laid before ourselves still harder
task to perform. At the very crisis of the con-
test of arms the President has reinforced them as
eliectually as if he had doubled their squadrons
in the field. We ,nay learn from our enemies.
They will rejoice. Their leaders will make Of
this proclamation their chiefast moral weapon.
1t is powerless in our hands for good in theirs
it will be potent for evil. Our only salvation
now is in the ballot-box. TO that it yet re-
mains possible for the people to resort. There
the battle lost to-day may be won tomorrow


/E5,o,, ,ho Tou;e,,llo To,,.,ol


The following paragraphs are taken from the
Louisville Journal, edited by George ID. Prem
tice, one of the most influential and consistent
of the Union men Of Kentucky:


We shall not stop now to discuss the charac-
ter and tendency of this measure. Both are
manifest The one is as unwarantable as the
other is mischievous. The measure is wholly
unauthorized and wholly pernicious. Though
it cannot be executed in fact, and though its cx-
ecuton probably will never be seriously attempt
ed, its moral influence will be decided and pure
ly hurtful. So far as its own purpose is con-
cerned, it is mere b''utun, .fulnen, but it will
prove only too etfectual for the purposes of the
enemy. 1t is gigantic usurpation, unrelieved
by the promise of solitary advantage howev-
er minute and faint, but, on the contrary, ag-
SIdNulCu ny blic uclitCc vi RIcut utlu
evil


Kentucky cannot and will not acquiesce in
this measure. Never! AS little will she al
low it to chill her devotion to the cause thus
cruelty imperied anew. The Government our
fathers framed is one thing, and thing above
price; Abraham Lincoln, the temporary occu-
pant OF the executive chair, is another thing,
and thing of comparatively little WORTH
The one is an individual, the sands of whose
official existence are running last, and who,
when his official existence shall end, will be
no more or less than any other individual. The
other is grand political structure, in which is
contained the treasures and the energies of civ
ilization, and upon whose lofty and shining dome,
seen from the shores of all cimes, centre the
eager hopes of mankind


The Preside mt has fixed the first of next jan
uary as the time for his proclamation to 90 in
to effect. Before that time the North will be
called upon to elect members of Congress. We
believe that the proclamation will strike the
loyal people in the North in general with a
mazement and adherence. We know it. We
appeal to them to manifest their righteous de-
testation by returning to Congress none but the
avowed and jealous adversares of this measure.
Let the revocation of the proclamation be made
the overshadowing issue, and let the voice of
tho people at the polls followed by the voice of
their representatives in Congress, be heard in
such tones of remonstrance and of condemna-
ton that the President, aroused to sense of
his tremendous error, shall not hesitate to with
draw his measure The vital interests of the
country demand that the proclamation should
he revoked the sooner the better and until il