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Fremont's Proclamation

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
September
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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The recent pioultimulion of Gen. Fki.mont,- wliich we pnblishod in laat weck's Arözjs - has exetted considerable discussion from the Press of tho country. In BOioe quarters it is hp'-i'} approyed, and in olhers as heariily cou demned. V havo no bcsitation in saying that vo think it w-is rigbt, ar that it cairo not, a mntnent too booíi Desperate diaeaeee requtre desperate remedio?;, and thJ traitors of Miesour aro not to bo handled with gloves on W"e think (bat martial law was abso lutelj oacesaary to save the State, anc wo öelieve in the right of et Qeneru! tt ■aeclare martia] Luv. Jackso.v did il in New Oiloans, und though finod by Judge Huil for acts in connection with it, tho country long sinco endorsed the act of the oíd Iiero. And ao wil! i endorso the eflfort of Gen. Fkbkont to bring order out of confusión, in Missouri. Martial law is ir.finitely botter tlian no law, at least in times of civil war. The only othor point found fault with, is the declaring the slaves cf knowt' and airned rebels free. Wo endorse that act, also. Wo regard slavo proporiy no more eacred than any otber property, and there is no reasoo why it phould be troatad difFerontly. If rebels would save their slavcs let thora crease to be reliéis. Obcying the constitntiun they can claim protoction ; disobeying it they have no right to claim it. We think thal all the loyái men of the disloy 1 States will rejoice in this aciion of ri:r:,:oNT. Let the disloyai men raufmur, itis they who need to fee] the strong hand of the law.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus