Republican stalwart newspaper The Adams Sentinel ran nothing in its folds hinting at the editor\u27s elation over the Emancipation Proclamation in the days following the document\u27s release. In a terse column, headed, Proclamation of the President, ran the document, unadorned with either accolades or contempt. Elsewhere in the paper\u27s folds, the news hovered back and forth over the fields around Sharpsburg and word of the lackadaisical pursuit of Lee\u27s army into Virginia. The deep meaning of one of Lincoln\u27s most momentous moments seemed to be lost on the Republicans of south-central Pennsylvania, as they eschewed the topic, pussyfooted around it and went out of their way to nearly ignore the document which sat in Washington City with its ink still drying
