Year: 1862

sponsibites by insisting that our failures are due
to the fact that their not carried out,
although government has already gone far beyond
Its pledges. The demands of these men will never
cease, simply because they hope to save themselves
from condemnation by having unsatisfed demands.
At the last session Congress not only abolished
slavery in the District OF Columbia, but to quiet
clamorons men, an act of confsestion and emanci-
patton was passed, which, in the opinion of lead
ing Republicans, was unconstitutional and unjust.
BY this act the rebels have no property, not even
their own lives, and they own no slaves But to
the astonishment and disgust of those who believe
in the policy of statutes and proclamations these
rebels still live and fight and hold their slaves.
These measures seem TO have terminated them.
They have careless and reckless way of appropri-
ating their lives and property, which by act of
congress belong to US, IN support OF their cause.


But these fanatical men have learned that it is
necessary to win victory before they divide the
spoIl-and what do they now proposes As they
cannot take the property of rebels beyond their
reach, they will take the property of the loyal men
of the border States. The violent men of this party
as you know from experience. my conservative Re-
publican friends, in the end have their way. They
now demand that the President shall issue proc
lamatlOn of immediate and universal emancipation
Against whom is this to be directedl Not against
those in rebellion, for they within the scope
OF the act of Congress. 1t can only be applied TO
those who have been true to our Union and our
flag. They are to be punished for their loyalty.
When We consider their suferings and their cruel
wrongs ut the hands of the secessonists their reli
ance upon our faith, is not this proposal black with
ingratitude!


The scheme for an immediate emancipation and
general arming of the slaves throughout the South
is proposal for the burchery of women and chill
dren. for scenes of lust and rapine, of arson and
murder unparalleled in the history of the world
The horrors of the French Revolution would become
tame in comparison. Its effect would not be con-
fined to the walls of cities, but there would be
widespread scene of horror over the vast expanso
of great States. involving alike the loyal and sedi
tious. Such malignity and cowardice would invoke
the interference of civilized Europe History tells
of the fires kinded in the Of religion, of aroc


tiles committed under pretexts Of order or liberty
but it is now urged that scenes bloodier than che
world has yet seen shall be enacted in the name Of
philanthropy


A proclamation of general and armed emancipa-
ton at this time would be u cruel wrong to the
African. Ii is now officially declared in Presiden-
tia addresses. which fortified by congressional
action, that the negro cannot live in the enjoyment
of the full privileges of life among the white race
1t is now admitted, after loss Of infinite blood
and treasure, that the great problem we have to
settle IS not the slavery. but the negro question.
terrible question. not springing from statutes or
usages, but growing out of the unchangeable dis
tincton of race. IL is discovered this late day


IN republican Illinois, that it is right to dive him
from its soil 1t is discovered BY Republican
Congress. after convusing our country with decla-
ratiOns of equal rights and asserting that he was
merely the victim of unjust laws, that he should be
sent away from our land. The issue is now changed.
The South holds that the African is fit to live here
as slave. Our Republican government denies
that he is fit to live here at all.