IMPORTANT FROM RICHMOND: The President’s Emancipation Proclamation Before the Rebel Congress; TALK OF RAISING THE BLACK FLAG (10/4/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/4/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Friday, Oct. 3.

The Richmond Whig, of Sept. 30, contains the following:

In the rebel Senate, on the 29th of September, Mr. SEMMES,of Louisiana, submitted the following joint resolution:

Resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate States, That the Proclamation of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, issued in the City of Washington, in the year 1862, wherein he declares "that on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord 1862, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated parts of a State, whereof the people shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be henceforth and forever free," is leveled against the citizens of the Confederate States, and as such is a gross violation of the usages of civilized warfare, an outrage on the rights of private property, and an invitation to an atrocious servile war, and, therefore, should be held up to the execration of mankind, and counteracted by such retaliatory measures as in the judgment of the President may be best calculated to secure its withdrawal or arrest its execution.

Mr. CLARK, of Missouri, moved that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was in favor of declaring every citizen of the Southern Confederacy a soldier, authorized to put to death every man caught on our soil in arms against the Government.

Mr. SEMMES, of Louisiana, said that the resolution had not been drawn without reflection. The question of retaliation was exclusively an Executive one, to be regulated by circumstances. But it was proper that the Legislative Department of the Government should express its approval of the retaliation contemplated by the resolution.

Mr. HENRY, of Tennessee, said that the resolution did not go far enough.

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Important from Richmond: The President’s Emancipation Proclamation Before the Rebel Congress – 2-3
The Victory at Iuka: Congratulatory Order from Gen. Grant – 3
From the Army of the Potomac: Review of Several Army Corps by the President and Gen. McClellan – 3
Affairs in the West: Operations of the Knights of the Golden Circle – 3
The War in Kentucky: A Battle Believed to Be in Progress – 3-4
Gen. Buell’s Department: Sunday in Camp – 4
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 4-5
An Illustration of the Patriarchal System – 5-6
Editorial: Emancipation in the South – 6
Editorial: Confederate Coquetry with the Northwest – 6-7
The Emancipation Proclamation in Richmond – 7
Editorial: The Repudiation of Postage-Stamps – 7
Bon Voyage – 7

[BroJoeK]

"Today" ends the 2nd Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, Union victory:

Mississippi 1862 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
April 29 - May 30	Corinth, MS	Union Army of the Mississippi (Halleck, Grant, Thomas, Buel ~120,000), Confederate Army of the Mississippi (Beauregard, Bragg, Van Dorn ~65,000)	Union 1,000+ total, Confederates 1,000+ total	USA
Sep 1	Denmark, MS	Union Army of the Missippi, (Dennis ~1,000), Confederate Army of the West (Armstrong -4,000)	Union 108-total (8-killed), Confederates 288 total (11=killed)	CSA
Sep 19-20	Iuka, MS	Union Army of Mississippi (Rosecrans, ~4,500), Confederate Army of the West (Price, ~3,179)	Union 790-total (144-killed), Confederates 1,516-total (263-killed)	USA
Oct 3-4	Corinth, MS	Union Army of MS (Rosecran s, 12,000), Confederate Army of West TN (Van Dorn, Price ~22,000)	Union 2,520-total (355-killed), Confederates 4.233-total (473-killed)	USA

The 2nd Battle of Corinth brings total casualties to date (by my count) to 233,000 including over 27,000 killed in action.

Summary of Civil War Engagements as of October 4, 1862:
Engagements in Confederate states:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
South Carolina	2	2	1	5
Virginia	7	26	11	44
North Carolina	5	1	0	6
Florida	2	0	0	2
Louisiana	3	1	0	4
Tennessee	5	3	1	9
Arkansas	4	0	1	5
Georgia	1	0	0	1
Mississippi	3	1	0	4
Total Engagements in CSA	32	34	14	80

Engagements in Union states/territories:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
Maryland	3	0	1	4
West Virginia	9	3	2	14
Missouri	12	12	1	25
New Mexico	5	8	0	13
Kentucky	4	6	2	12
Oklahoma	0	3	0	3
Total Engagements in Union	33	32	6	71
Total Engagements to date	65	66	20	151

[BroJoeK]

"Affairs in the West: Operations of the Knights of the Golden Circle – 3"

Interesting reference to the Knights of the Golden Circle, here equated to the Democrat party and treason in Indiana.
The town of Lawrenceville, Indiana mentioned is in the southeast corner of the state, about 25 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The "Golden Circle" referred to is a map of the proposed Confederate Empire:

[BroJoeK]

"An Illustration of the Patriarchal System – 5-6"

To be sure, this is not a current Woke critique of modern inequities in "the patriarchy".
Rather, it refers to the treatment of children born in Louisiana prisons being sold into slavery on reaching the age of ten.

Union Gen. "Beast" Butler forbade selling such children into slavery.