Show EMAN emancipation AND ITS EF EFFECTS notwithstanding the isolated condition of the slaves at the South more particularly since the interdiction of 0 communication with the north in the beginning of the presen present t war they have not been alt ait altogether oether unadvised of the measures being adopted by the federal government for their relief from tha the shackles of bondage they had bad many of them at least if reports be true heard of the first of january and were in eager anticipation of its advent agthe as the great day of jubilee jubliee and freedom freedor ato nto to them in tennessee mississippi south carolina north carolina georgia and in fact throughout the entire south accepting the lexington ky observer as sufficient authority the joyous tidings of prospective liberty bad tad spread from plantation to plantation despite all the efforts on the part of managers as well as owners to make it contraband and so 30 deeply effecting them that it is declared multitudes of the slaves would not work another day after january first if they could avoid it even in kentucky ostensibly loyal and eo so exempted from the benign operations of the proclamation the louisville journal tournai admits that among the slave population the impression prevailed to a considerable extent that they would be free on the first day of january under the proclamation of the president of 0 the united states the journal burnal 1 also p predicates redi redl dedicates cates that if the delus on was not speedily corrected it would be likely to lead to results disastrous as well to the negroes as to their masters the african churches are recommended as a more direct medium through which to dissipate the delusion delu slon sion a delusion in this instance relative to the local opera operations tons of the measures only but in others and where no question arises as to the applicability cabi lity of the proclamation ly by many degrees L more moie fraught with difficulties and disasters to the slave that of obtaining a so iso called liberty or immunity from the service of former masters to be as a mass incarcerated in such a distracted condition of servitude penury friendless friendlessness fiess and utter dependence never known to them thern in their Sout southern hern tern homes the ingenuity of very many is now taxed in devising the most efe eff effectual emual remedies for preventing mutinous uprisings among the negroes other than the setting to work of the colored colore d preachers throughout the state of kentucky with all the zeal they are masters of to a dc c quaint them with the fact that notwithstanding in all their fond dreams of liberty being left out of the catalogue of intended guests at president Linc Lincol olits ns grand jubilee picnic pic nic the cup of their happiness is to be inconsiderately dashed to the ground the lexington 0 observer proposes that a suitable number of citizens be engaged as an armed anci anil moulle mounted 1 patrol in each county one halt to be ber on duty during the day the other half during the night bight this patrolling t force to be thoroughly organized having precinct captains day and night officers and general commandants to be paid fair wages and put on duty at the earliest eardest possible moment it may well be inquired if these precautionary measures are demanded to secure the peace and preserve the ives hyes of the people of OP kentucky stucky Ke what preventives tives will be found adequate in those states further south where the negro population exceeds the white even hen when ben the latter are all at hom horn such are the initiatory modes modey recommended for subduing the virulence of incensed blacks ere the proclamation of emancipation bad ae been uttered and such are the beginning beginnings of those among the dark myriads of the sons of canaan which may yet convulse the land of their bondage and execration from its center to its circumference whatever results the lapse of time may nay extort from the presidents proclamation of january first eighteen hundred and sixty three now in full force its tu M ats for weal or woe to be ultimately tested by the country there are not a few whose apprehensions so far from being confirmatory of the e emphatic de caration sa pointedly and condid antly expressed by mr lincoln in hig hia late massa message e that we awe knew know how to bars bare the union hnton the world know we do know how bow to save eve it we even tn WE mrs nere nerl hold the power aud and nd ber bear the responsibility 0 regard it as one of the most efficient aurilli aries arles ie to intensify the war infuriate the people of the south render all efforts at reconciliation ohn oft or reconstruction if possible more than ever indicative of and bring untold disasters alike upon the authors and the devoted victims of the meas measure ure urt |