The Last Proclamation At Richmond

F rom the Iíicbmond Sentinel. Dec. 14. Supposing cur readers have a curiosi' tv to Ree the late message of President Lincoln to his Congres, and presuming tbat Lincoln wants our people to aso h:w graoious he is, and what a loving proclamaron he has iasued to us all in Dixie, we publisb both in our issue today. When the British ecvovs wished to tempt our fathers in the KuvolutiOD by their proffcrs of amnesty the Continental Congress uhvays assit-ted in giving tbeir pn.clamation a wicle cireultion ; for not only did Congress confide in the loyaíty ot the people, but they coiiMdered these papers as. calculateil to mímate the popular patriotiara. A hundred times stronger nre our reasuns for expeetiog this result now, Newrdid Brit is A cnmm'ssioner or general, in all his arrógame, put fttrth to npuier.t a message as the Washington mm has sent down to ua. He is going to forgive us something, it seems ón certaiu terms. To the most liberal, unquahfied and all embraeing offer of forgiveoeiw to oiir fathers, Dr. Pranklin replied : - " We, who have cornraitted iio oflence, need no forgiveness." Otir answer would he. the same, even ij Lmcolns off,-r tmitaled the humanity of Brtlain'i. Forgive us bat? Forgive iV hc-cause he has invaded our States ith arrt.ed multitudes to overthrow our la w, destroy our liberties and compasB our d;struction ? Forgivè us because he hus plundered our seas and ravaged auv coast ? Forgivo us for having bumed our towns and desolated uur hornee ? Forgive us ior the many thoufnndg of our brotbera and ona and i-.ear frieuds whotn he bas alain upon our owd soil, and vvhile repelling bis nvas-ioti ? Foi'give us for tha many dear mutilated ones who will remain the legaey of the war ihen the war -hall le over ? Forgive us for baving outraged even the eeafibilitiea ofEurppe by his attempt to exoito servile revult ? Forgive us for his beast Butler,. ;ind for the thousand atrocities which he lia let loose against ns ? He may frgive us for these hia crime-1; ut so leng as wt have Aear.'t toji1 and hands to strike we shallnevcr fufgice htm. Hovv impudent it ia to come, with our brothers' blood upon his aecursed hands, and asks us to aocept hls forgivenePs ! But he goes furilier. He makes his forgiveness dependent upon terms. We have only to s.vcnr ihat ib'e proclatnation of ernanoi [iiition which ha issued last year, and which we reieived with mocking, aod which luis since been a general derisioo, -hall le submitted to by us. Our society is to be upturned. Instead of that dislinclion betweea the races necessary for the happiness of both, he he asks us to swear that we will havo none it all, un-il his Congress of fanati:s or his packed benoh ui judges shall iay that bis proclamaron was wind.- But all th's will not do. We must ibundoo to that demon thirat ior their bl d, vvliich has been indecently eshibitéd tVoin the ffrst, all the men who have reiidered our annuls conepicuous, and ufider whose lead we have won a fama, t nut a. name, amung the naiions. Wa m ist leave the President to Abraham' tender nierde-i The ai'my of the Pot nac ma-t nftcr up their glorious leader, under whom both have become illustiinus. Deaurcgard must be hung. - tn short, cvery offioor down to Colonel, aud every civil fiinctboary from Con-, grí'!-s:i a.n ío mesaeuger, and from Gov-: erncr to' Coist;ib!e, are to ba retaincd for Lincolu's malignity. . How he and S'4Wiird imd Sumner would gloat over the hangiug bodies of the !' dead r l.els !" Is even Lincoln baso enoiih to muoiiK.. that a bnive people, such as the C'iil'i-derates have proven themselves, #ould, undr any stress of fortune, prove tr ai tors to the men whom they llave callad to leád thetn, in camp or to.uncil ? 'l'liis iiiiserulile attempt lo divide and ewrupt us will be contemptuously reenteil as the insult which it ie. And t his ia the best that Lincoln can think of for u-- utter pr itrulion at his foet - a social ruin, horrible to cvery white man, lich and poor ; and Our choicest eitizeus, whose names are our pride, hunded over to be hangod. Ttiis infiirnous proclumation will but aroueo us In nev zeal ,'ind nv efforts.