President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

The New York Tribune recites the va rious poiuts u the proelauiation, and savs ' " It is the beginning of the end of llie reballion ; the begitining of the oaw Life of tlie nation. God bles Abraham Lincoln I" Froni the New York Herald. The gravity of this proelamation will strike every one. It has been f'orccd upon the nation by the abolitionists of the North and secessionists of the South. - It inaugurates an overwhciming rovolution in the system of labor in a vast and important ügncultural section of the country, which will, if the rebels persist in their eourse, suddenly emancípate three or four millious of human beings, and throw them in the fulluess of their ignorauce and helplessnes, upon their own resources and the wisdom of the white race to properly regálate and cure for them in thuir new condition of life. I3ut the ïmportauee of this grat social rovolution will not be confiued to the sectiou whero the black race now forms the chief lahoring clement. It will have an influ ence on the labor of the North and West [t will, to a cartain est.'nt, b:iug the jlack hibor of the South in competition with the white labor on the exteusive rain farms of the West, unless the exsting stringent laws of some of the Western States confiuing the negro to his jreseut geographical position, are adopted in all the other free States. This proelamation, however, gives the South an opportuuity to escape the fate so clearly and emphatically marked out )y Mr. Lincoln. It should be her golden opportuuity. It ia to be seen that the Prtsident has Jixed on the first day of Januari, as the day for the emancipation of all laves in rebellion to the Federal Gnvrnment on that day. This should strike lome to the interests of the people of the Scmth. It must bo manifest to them that he rebellion cannot succeed. Their cold eceptiou in Maryland and their uttor oute by MeClellan's ariny prove this. - t is now thequestlon with them whether or not they aro prepared, for the sake of .he few miserable leaders of this wicked ebellion to subrait to this overwhelming evolution in their social system. There s the document. There is the time fixed 'or the return of the rebcllious States to he aüegiance of the Federal Govern nent. No event in the history of the world surpasses the one now presented )y the rresidout, which is to ba decided u a little over uinety days. "rom the New York Times. The wisdom of that clausa in the prolamation which declares free the slaves f rebel States after tlio first of Jauuary, s unquestionable a necessity, iadisput ble It has been declared time and gain by Presideut Lincoln that as soon s this step became a uecessity, he sliould dopt it. lts adoption uow is not a eonession that the military means of supjressing the g-eat rebellion have proved a ailure ; but simply that there is a point at whieh any other legitímate appliauces hat eau be ealled io, shall also be avail ed of. Slavery is uu element of strength o the rebels if left untonched ; it will assuredly provo an element of weakness - it may be of total destrucüon - tothein and their cause wheu we make such use of it and lts victims as lies in our power. From uow till the ürst of January - the day wheu this proolaination will tako effect - is little over three months. What may happen between now and theu, in he progress of the war, it is hard to say. We most earnestly hope, however, that Dy that time the rebellion will be put down by the military hand, and that the terrible element of elave iusurreotion may not be invoked. If by that day, the rebel army may be overthrown, and ;heir capital captured ; and, if the slavelolding rebols still prove inalignaut, irrepressible, and as in the South-west, dis organizers and marauders, tlien let tbat which Vice President Stephens oalled tho corner-stone of the Southern Confederacy ba kuoeked from uuder it, aud see whether the whole fabric of rebellion will not necessarily turable to the ground. Frora the New Tork World. President Lincoln is a very Blondín in the art of politieal balancing. When in bis elevated position a portion of the ba'.ancing polo is thrown out on the left side, he deftly projecta a portion of it on the rigbt. Thus he ruaintains bis equilibrïum. VVhile he was humoriug the radicáis in the process of degradiug Gen. McClellan, he withheld the proelamation for whicli they so loudly clamored. When the unroleuting necessities of war compelled him to restore that General to command, be found it necessary to pacify this exciting and meddlesome faction, and he throws a sop to the barking, tbree-raouthed Cerberus, in the shape of a new proclamation. This new proclauiation reully amounts to little. The Pies.deut proclaims in substance, tliat on the tirst of next January he will issue still anothor proclatnatiou, putting in force the mam provisious of the cunfiscation act. It is unbe coming the dignity of a great government to make such menaces as to what it will hereafter do in territory of whieh a powerful arnicd foe disputes the jurisdiction. If, on the first of next January, the war is substantially ended, there would be some reason in giving the insurgents their election between submission and civil peualties. But thev will laugh such offers to scorn so long as they can confront us with great armies. That part of tha proclamution whioli relates to slaves coming withia our Unes is particularly weak. The law is the saine as it was several montlis ago. lf a procla raatson is necessary, why was it so long delaycd ? lts issue at this late day looks like a conoession to the radical clamor. From the Chicago Tribune. PretNidont Linooln has set his hand and afBxed the great seal of the uatinn to the grandest proclauiation ever issued by inao. It aimf, at DOthing less than com plete cmancipation, and the establishment oí a Free llepublic from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf. So Bplendid a visioo has hardly shown upon tlie world since the day of the MesBÍiih, From the data of this proclama tiou bogins the history of the republic as our fathers designed to have it - the homo of freedom, the asylum of the op pressed, tho seat of justice, the land of cqual rights under tlie law, whero each man howcver humblc, shall be entitled to life, liberty, atd the pursuit of happincss. Let no one think to stay the glorious raformatioa. Every day's evputs are hasteaiug its triuaipb, and whosoever eliull place himself iu its way it will grind him to powder. F rum the Chieayo Times. Tlie President bas at last weakly yieldeet to the pressure upou him, about wliich he has so bitterly complaincd, and is3uod bis proclamation of negro euianei patiou ! It is not yet a montli sinoe lie anuounced liis purpose to " suve the Uuion in the shortuit way under tho oonstitution.'1 He now announces liia purpose to save it by overriding tho constitution. For he has no constitutional power to issue ibis proclaraatiou of emancipation - none whatever. He is hmiself tlio creature of the eoustitution. Nobody need argue with us that he has the power undur the military law. Military law does not destroy the fundamental civil law. In war as iu peace. " the constitution is the supreine law of the land." This proclamation is the iustrumentality by whieh abolitioLisin lias undertaken that the war should be closed in thirty days at the fa.therest. Indeed, we have been. told that uuder it the President would bo able to stamp armies out of the earth. Let hitn stamp at once, for we are anxioua to see the flaming giunts of abolitionism throwing theuiielves into the fight and driying rebellion in dismay before them, as promisod. We are auxious to b3hold the stupendous and magnifioent results whieh wero to floff, liko a raighty stream trom tho proelamatiou. Surely we shall not bo utterly and totally deceived as to those results. From the Cincinnati Commercial. We have no doubt the President'a policy, as laid dowu in Lis proclamation, will be approved by an immense majority of tho people of the United States who are loyal to our republiean form of government. They liave boeu called upoa and are now callod upon to make vast sacritices for the general tare. 1 lieir blood is beuig pourod out lika water, and thoir treasure is beinpr lavishod by huudreds of milltons of dol lars, to maintain iu the field an ariny reator than that of any of the military einpires of Europe. Thia state of affaÍFs eannot of course continue indeSuitely. - If any action can be taken rcspecting tlie slaves that will teud to bring tlio war to a conclusión, that aetion will be endorsed by the people with an approach to unaniinity. The most conservative íannot complain that the President has aot shown and is showing an emiueut degree of moderat iou. He gives tho rebils three month's warniug, and couplas the warnhig with the'assurauce to luyal men iu insurrectiouary districts, wuo loso property in consequenee of ihe action of the United States that they will be compensated. Prora the Buífalo Commercial Advertiser. Discarding the legislation of Congrcss, and disregarding the dictation of Greeley and others oí' that ilk, the President has patieutly waited the declarattou of his purpose, till the coming of the hour which would suit with it. The notes of vietory are ringing in our ears, and tho warning of an hnpe;:ding retribution oii treasou blcuds hormoniously with them. Prosideut Lincolu has. taken his position upon the law of mitions, and by a careful wording of his proclamation, has d ñned this act to be a military moasuxe, necessitated and justified by a military necessity. Ho cuts loose frotn all political entangloments and shuts the mouth of all partisan cavillers, by taking a step in adcance of the Constitution, and drawiog the sword to defend it. Ho attacks only rebellion, and makes war upon no institutions, and üo political or social rights. - He preseuts to trcason the alternativo of submission or puuishment, nol by the late, but bi the noord. When the military neoesáity which has impelled him thus to act shall pass away, and loyal Bubmission shall succecd armed resistanco then the equally powerful necessity of peace wül compei hi.m to assume ayain the robes of his municipal office, and restore, enforce and protect tV:'ri) rebel State in its rights under the Constitution. From the Louisvüle Journal. On fii'st reading this proclaination, we supposed that it referred to the sixth section of the oonfiseation act, atid proclaimed what the President understood to bc the legal effect of his previous proolamation fouuded on that suction. This, in all couscience, would have been bad euough, Uu readnig the proclamation a second time, however, we peroeived that its subject matter is different froin that of the proclamaron, the former relating to all tbc property ot' rebels in any State, whilu the latter relates expressly and exclusivcly to all the slaves of tho States .11 rebolhon. It thus appears that the proclamation is not and does uot assurue :o be fouuded on the contiscation law er any other law. It is evideutly an arbitrary act of the President as Commander-in-(Jhief of tho array aud navy of the Union. In short, it ia a naked stroke of military necessily. We shall not stop now to discuss the character aud tendency of this measurc. Both are manifest. The one is s unwarrantable as tho other is mischievous The measure is wholly UL'authorized, aud wholly peruieious. ThougU it cannot bo executed in fact, aud though its executiou probablv will never be seriously atteuipted, its moral iuüuence will be deoided and purely hurtful. So far as its own purpese is coucerned, it is a mere brtttumfulmen, but it will be only too effeetual lor the purposes of the euemy. It is a gigantic usurpation, unrelieved by the promise of a solitary advantage, however minute aud fuint, but, on the coutniry, aggravated by tho menace of great aud uumixed evil. Kentucky caunot and will not acquiesce in this measure. Nuver. Aa littlo will she allow it to ehiU her devotion to the cause thus imperiled anew. The government our faiuers frained is oue thing, and a thiug above price ; Abraham Linculn, the tempoi'ary occupant of the Executiva chair, is another thing, aud a thing of comparativuly httle worth. Tho oue is au individual, the sands of whoso official exiateuee are runuiug tast, and who, wheu his oflioial csistenee shall eud, will be no more or less tuun any other iudividual, The other is a grand icul structare, i wmch ís contained tue treasures aud the enérgica of civilization, and upon wliosa lofty and shiniug domo, seen from tha shores of all elimes, ceutre the eager liopcs of mankind. What Abraliuni Jiincoli! as Presidöut does or fails to du inay exult ur lower our cstimato of hiuiself but uüt of the great and beneñceat govoratuent of which he is but the teinpurary servant. The temple ia not I the less suertd and precious bcoauae tho puest lays an uulawfal sauritíce upou the íltar. The loyalty of ücstucüy is cot to bo shaken by auj mad act of the President. If iieoessary, bIio will resist the act. and aid ia holding tiic actor to a just and lawful accountabüity, but she will never raise her own hand against the glorious fabrio beoause he has blindly or cruniuully stuitten it. She cannut be so falso to beraelf s this. Sho is ineapable of such guilt and fol ly. Tlie President bas iixcd the first of riext Jaouary aa the timo for bis procla mation to go into eiíeot. Beíore that time the North will be callad upon to eloct membei's of Congress, and the now Congross will assemble. We believe that the pi-oclamation will strike the loyd peoplo of the Noi th in general with amazement and abhorrence. We know it. We cali upou Ihem to manifest their righteous detestation by returuing to Congress nono but the avowed and zeal ous adversarles of this measure. Let the revoeatioa of the proelamaiion bs made the ovorshadowing issue, and let the voice of the people at the polls, followed by tho voico of their representativos in Congress be heard in such tones of rempiistrance and of condemnation that the President, aroused to a sense of bis tretneQdou3 error, shall not hesitate to witlidraw the measurn. Tho vital in terests of the country demand that the proolamation shall bo revovked, tho sooner the better, and, until it is revoked, evfiry loyal man should unite ia vigorously working for its revocation. If the President by any means is pressod away from the couatitutioa and hü own pludges, he must bo pressed back agaiu and held there by the strong arm of the people. The game of pressure ia one that two can play at ; and it is no slight ruproach to the couservative men of the country that herotofore they have not takeD their fair share in this game as played at the national capital. The radicáis have been allowed to have the gamo too much to thcinselves. We hope thia reproach will now bo wiped away. From the National Intelligencer. The reader will find in another part of to-day's Intelligencer a proclamaron of the President of the United States, declaring prospectively the emancipatioa of the slaves in the insurgent States on the lst of Jauuary next, uuless, in the meantime the peop'o of these States shall so far return to tbeir coustitutional relations as to send representativos to Congress. With our wcll-knowu and oft repeatcd viows respecting the inutility of such proclamations, it can hardly be necossary lor us to say that, where we expect no good, we shall only be too happy to find that no harm has been done by tho present deelaration of the Executive. This new proclamation with regard to the contingent einancipation of slaves in the iiisurguut States not beingselfenforcing any moro than the proclamation of Gen. Ilunter iu regard to the iiumedi ate emanoipation of the slaves in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, tbe only differencs between the two papers resido in the signatures respectively attauhed to them. And as, in themselves cousidured, they are hkely to prove equally void of practical effect, we are not without the suspicion that the President has takeü this muthod to conviuce the only class of persons likely to be pleased with this proclamation, of the utter fallaey of the hopes they have fouuded upon it. Thia opinión, we may add, derives confirination from the fact that he suspenda, for some montbs, the enforcenient of so ïuuch of his declaration as denouuoas the emancipation of elaves in puni&hineut for contumacy on tho part of the insurgent States, while he gives mmediate i'oroe and effect, so fur as forco and effact result from proclamations, to the regulations prescribed by the new article of war and the provia ious of the coufiscation act iu the matter of' slavea. On any other theory tban this the proclamation may bo said to opan issues too tremendous, and to be fraught with consequences too undeveloped, to adtuit of culculation or forecast by auy iutvlligeuoc we can coininand.