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Correspondence of Ike RegisterlThe icetk of Batiks—27te lack of news at theFederal CapitalmotionIhe Emancipation Procla-Theparing for whatever may arise. Gen. Si gel moved his forces to Fairfax C. H. on Thurs- 1day last, where his Headquarters now areThe purpose and necessity of itMovements ofaid of Slavery to the BebekHe does not waste his time, nor is he iuac- jtive, unless in obedience to the orders of hisTroops, dec.superiors in command. Why he and hisCamp Near Georgetown, I).Sept. 27th, 1862• C.Jcorps were kept locked by military authori-t*ty in these intrencliments last week, when ^Editor Register:—The last week was such commanders as himself were so muchone of battles on and near the upper waters needed on the Upper Potomac, is not ex-of the Potomac. Hopes and fears, for thesuccess of the Army of the Potomac, vascil-lated. Now lying-tongued rumor gave us aplained—probably never will be. He is always active and will be ready for anyemergency, or to do any duty requiredvictory—then a defeat. No oflicial reportFrom all we see here, the marching of thefrom the Commander of the Army of thePotomac has informed the citizens of thenew regiments from their camps about the intrencliments, leaving their baggage behind,Nation’s Capital, or the thousands of stran- we can safely conjecture what is lik«ly soongers now within its limits, the exact resultsof last week's terrific fighting. Enough,however, has leaked out through the lettersto occur—another great battle. Large forces of troops are daily moving from this vicini-Ofty, but their destination is not known.of army correspondents, and from those who much that is transpiring in our very pres-participated in those battles, and have since ence we have no positive knowledge of whatbeen here, to advise the country of about it all means; yet, of one thing we are cer-how much was done and to what extent it tain, the President is resolutely determinedresulted in favor of the cause of the Union, that the remaining months of this autumnAt this great National centre, where the shall not be passed idly, and he trusts notpeople of the country believe everything is j ineffective by the Union torces. You canknown—by them supposed to be the foun- safely rely upon the vigorous prosecution oftain from whence correct information finds i the war from this time henceforward, untilits way to the American people, and which the rebellion is suppressed and the l*nionis comparatively but a short distance from saved.Potomac.the Union and rebel armies, yet the residents and tarrying strangers here are notinformed, nor do they know on which sideof the Potomac the rebel army lies.Npeecla of a Texan Refugee—What a Foya! Texan ThinliN of the Rebellion and it* C'auiie—Slavery or Free dom.if,therefore, you, who reside on the shore ofHon. A. J. Hamilton, late member of Con-Lake Erie, wonder why you do not get “thegress from Texas, and who recently escapedfrom the clutches of the traitors who soughtnews (if the result ot the great battles of lif^addregged a large assembly at Brook -; last week, you and your readers can console lyn N y a few evenings since. The NewJ y' ursclves tvit tlte fisc , t ^it jyou ! York Tribune gives quite a full requirt ot hiswell informed of all pertaining to them, as speech. \\ e would gladly publish it entire, they are here in Washington, who are nearer but space „ ij] not permit. It was a speechto the late battle-fields and the two great «t to be made and one that will vet ringarmies, than the distance a tape line seven- through the land, powerful to aid the Gov-tv-five miles in length would measure.ernment in the suppression of the rebellionTo-day closes the present week. In the antl the restoration of the Union.space of this single week three importantevents have transpired: the President’sAs to the varying explanations which Ikwas meeting in the North, of the cause ofj emancipation proclamation, his proclama- the rebellion, he said:lion authorizing the arrest and trial by acourt martial of all persons in the free States who discourage enlistments andare aecus-itomed to express sympathy for the rebelstand infamous traitors w ho are in armed rebellion against the Government, and the adjourned meeting in this city of the Congressr of the Governors of the loyal States. Theseo events are now the subjects of reflection andr discussion by the people of the whole nation. The most important of these events.tis the publication of the emancipation proclamation. That document, if regarded asedeciding what the policy of this administration will be on the subject of slaves and!islavery at the outset of the coming year.I will not, at my time of life, in the sereand yellow leaf, and w hen so much is before *us to accomplish, the salvation of the country and the perpetnity of its institutions, in which the liberties of the people are involved, attempt—there is too little time left me for that work to sjiend any of it in listening longer than enough to manifest decent respect to any twaddle about the cause of the rebellion. I say, what are you going to do about it ? The fact U that the rebellion exists. You w ill agree with me that a great, paternal, glorious Government is being sacrificed, that if the effort to destroy it be•Psuccessful, we may well doubt whether we or our children will ever be the recipients of the same measure of freedom and the bles*--ings resulting from good Government that we have been. Then the only question formay most unquestionably be said to Ik* onevon and 1 is to determine the mode of re-sof the greatest events of this century. It isstoring the Government.!.lie then proceeded to demonstrate froma military measure, authorized by Congress. u «• * ,,* the address of Mrpratte of South Carolina,The President issues it as the Conunander-ein-Chief of the army and navy of the Unicirculated through all the Confederate Statesthat it w as not because of any oppressiveted States. In issuing it, he has been in- ; IegisIatioIli ^j.re3si„„a upou the Soot)..liuenced but by one purpose-!/* mpprtss!,,„ n()r lva, jt of ,, innofO,erMU.m. As a war measure, it creates ! ,hev I,,d suffered. It0the right and gives the Executive the power.was because in aDemocracy, the laboring men ruled and theywhich he unquestionably has by the ivro- a * • a * r i « e1 * determined to found a new order of Govern-visions of the Constitution, to strike at theheart and thestrengthof the rebellionment. This w as the common voice; it wawhich is wasting, desolating, destroying andteimpoverishing the country.heard everywhere, in all the public places, that Republicanism was a failure. Mr.S.During one and a half years, the Govern-Hamilton continued:lee»i-ment has been fighting, w ith varied success,this, monstrous rebellion and not the caThis proclamation aims a blow, straight andis direct, at the cause of the rebellion. Dur-\Ye are astonished that we ever thought it could succeed; we now realize the fact that we must havt*a stronger government; if youknew it as 1 know jt, you would feel, fellow -citizens, that there was somethin?ding all this time, the leaders of our armio—hawe been attempting an impossibility, anU utter impossibility, to save the Union andthe institution of negro slavery w ith it. They attempt has proved futile.lt;r©deThus influenced and governed, our bravetroops have fallen upon the field of deadlyconflict, or by reason of wounds or disease; are tenanted to the numbers of thousands inour hospitals, while the rebellion has grownstronger and bolder.The failure to captureRichmond, the disgraceful retreat of thee:e-Army of Virginia within these intrenchmentsthat guard the National Capital, its last hope,the doubtful result of the late fighting inconclusive demonstrationsce Maryland, aremeto that either Slavery or the Union must perish. Early in this struggle between sec-IT-hev-tions, the arrogant slave-driver boasted, “weof will fight while our slaves work.*Theinslaves have planted—the slave lord hareaped the product of his labor, and with it*ns-t-er;hy,idlievethillsubsisted an army to fight against the Iw more involved in this revolution than a simple dc sire to get rid of this hated Yankee. It isnot because tin* men who inaugurated ithated the people of the North. As Mr. Spratt says, it was not because they b it that you had seriously wronged them, hut it was a deliberate purpose on their part t be the controlling spirits in a new and a different order of Government, where their power would be jierpetual, and they would no*, be subjected to the chances of a free choice of a free people in recurring elections, as had been the case in past time in our country; and lie that does not reali/t that fact to-dav, does not vet understandv * mewhat that revolution means, and by const*-quence the man that is to-day flattering himself that, by conciliatory measures, In kind words, by peace offerings, the disloya States can be caused to resume their position in the Confederacy, is wholly deceivedit never will happen in that way. [Cheers. Thore is but one remedy, and that is on tlu physical power of the loyal people of tlu North—[Great applause]—the phvsieapower directed by the exercise of sufficien thought to lead you to just conclusions as tlt;to he to vou as11 what the consequences are n- well as to the balance of tthe people of tinion. Rebellion has been fattened and grown I nited States in case of failure.insolent and pow erful. If the slave does not ^ himself, he said :plant, the master will not reap and an artfivof rebels will be left w ithout subsistence.Comparatively speaking, if not in reality,this proclamation numbers the days of ne-*ro slavery in these United States—it destroys the cause which so imminently imperils the safety of the Union. The policyof the Administration on the subject of thegreat disturbing cause has, through thisproclamation, been distinctly disclosed. Itnow has a known policy. If the timid andthe wavering have been awed by the bold marches northward of legions of armedtraitors, they will now take courage. ByWhatever may be said of what I say hen to-night, I know I have not yet past througlthe last ordeal of trial in consequence othese troubles. It was hard to part wit! friends of years; it was hard to give up tin position, whatever it may have been, whirl I had enjoyed; it was hard to part with wifi and children; it was hard to leave homt without knowledge that I would ever re turn; but I had something to sustain me ii this—I had true and loyal friends who gavt me moral aid andcomfort;it maylie that soim of these may fall away from me now, becaust my miqd may be led to a conclusion whicl they are not yet prepared for, but to whicl they are just as certain to arrive as I havlt; arrived at it to-night.loyal men, by those who would save the Slavery was at the bottom of the rebellionedheedononUnion, let it cost what it may of blood andtreasure, this great proclamation will hehailed as the bright star of certain promise. It will be denounced.Mr. Spratte says then that this revolutioi was not because the spirit of tin* Northeri people was aggressive, it was not the Gov ernment of the United States was aggres ridiculed and con- sive, but because the very framework of sore.ofdcmned only by traitors and their cowardly ciet.v ,lcre 'vould» left free to grapple will sympathisers. * Between the loyal and dis- SIavel7 d«*trlt;yit by moral force. Whethe11.,.,.. ‘ I Hat V i ACT IHa nrPfMttA /AHA lliat lma in4(..st-heheinheaasofx-latedireloyal, it will draw an unmistakable dividing line.ed00tohein-ils.that view is the precise one that lias inllu enced those who have engaged in the Re hellion of the South or not, they have beei Judging by what we know of popular sufficiently convinced of one fact, that th1 influence of non-slaveholders in the nevsentiment in the North—of what we have seen of popular sentiment in the BorderGovernment was to be felt less and less yeaStates hr the (W o,- • . Near, until at last they should be reduce!states, ay the tew^ expressions which have to the conditalready conic hither from the North, we confidently believe the President will be most enthusiasticallysustained. Approved tooas it is by the Governors of all the Northernand loyal States, save one, and even thatone by no means hostile to it. is a cheerinfrproof that the President will he sustainedion of serfs, and that the slave holder, and he alone, should govern tin country. Now, while t w o years ago I wouh not have lent my aid to a man who wa seeking the destruction of Slavery, while would have regarded him as an impractic able friend of the Government and thepeaci of society, while I dreaded to see an appea which would bring in collision the spirinrkl^l._______1 i.11_______ *^1 Dl. . iby (he people—an evidence that he has not '^ich opposc.l Slavery with Slavery whih .... „ , , . t did believe that our fathers w ho frametmade a mistake. He has made no mistake.He will be applauded and sustained. Thecause of the rebellion has received its deaththe Government understood well how ttrouble on the one hand and inevitabl difficulty on the other.blow—the armies of the Union will triumph5htip-ie-I am not preparet to see that system used for the purjiose operpetuating itself, and in the same ratii T , , 11 18 elevated, my children depressedIn regard to the tuture movements of the The question has been changed. It is nowhat it was two years ago. There was nlt;and the Union will be saved.army, they are unknown.layctsThe whereabouts , ... . „ ----------and number of General McClellan’s forces who8ouP,d more than simply tlt;pretect Slavery under the laware also unknown. In circles the host in- r^T^enm'ent ?nd Wl'e'formed, it is believed they ,re artive, pro-1 terod tfpon, I said SuSS?
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Sandusky Daily Commercial Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 06, 1862
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