nd denounces this proclamation,
they will make this contest, on their part, still more clearly a war for
the maintenance, perpetuity, and unlimited extension of slavery.

If, under such circumstances, England continues to support the
rebellion, she must do so as the open and avowed advocate of slavery.
What is to be done with the slaves when they are emancipated? is a grave
question, which we shall discuss at a future period. There can be little
doubt, however, that emancipation, on a scale so extensive, would give a
great impulse to the cause of colonization.

There are, however, three classes of States in which this proclamation
will have no effect on the 1st of January next:

1st. The Border States.

2d. Such of the rebel States, and such
parts of them, as shall return to their allegiance
before that date.

3d. Such of the rebel States, and such
parts of them, as shall not then have been
conquered.

In the mean time there may be rebel States, or portions of them, where
the apprehended loss of their slaves, as a consequence of persisting in
the rebellion, may induce a return to the Union, and thus hasten a
successful conclusion of the war.

How far this proclamation, merely as such, would avail to change the
status of slaves in such seceded States as may not be occupied by us and
conquered before the first of January next, may be more appropriately
discussed when, if ever, such a contingency shall happen.

In the mean time, whatever may be the effect of this proclamation upon
the institution of slavery, which was the cause of the war, let us all
unite in its vigorous prosecution, and in carrying, promptly and
triumphantly, the flag of the Union throughout every State, from
Richmond and Charleston to Mobile and Savannah. Our next campaign must
witness the final overthrow of the rebellion.

THE REBEL NUMBERS.

The whole number of males in the rebel States, by the census of 1860,
between 15 and 60 years of age (excepting East Tennessee and Western
Virginia), is less than one million; of whom, from physical disability,
sickness, alienage, &c., at least 100,000 are not available. Of the
remaining 900,000, at least 200,000 have been withdrawn by death,
wounds, sickness, parole, capture, &c., reducing the number to 700,000;
of whom, for indispensable pursuits, at least one third must remain at
home, reducing their present maximum forces to 466,000. Now, if these
disappear no more rapidly in the