Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-02
lFor the Cincinnati Press
The Policy of Making Use of the Blacks In
QueIllrg the Southern Rebellion.

Queillug the Southern Rebellion.
EDITORS PREss;-This question deserves
and should receive, the calm consideration of
every man who desires the perpetuity of
the Union, and who would see the old ma.
tional flag wave in triumph over all its enc
mics, at home and abroad. l write not in
defense of race who had no lot or part in
achieving the liberties we now enjoy, or who
were in any manner participants in founding
a government which was intended for the
white race alone; but to advocate the use of
them in destroying those who are seeking to
break up government that was intended to
be an ylum for the white oppressed through
out the world, who might seek it to enjoy
that liberty denied in their native land.
How is this to be done2 The way is clear.
1t must be conceded that the people of the
rebelious States have no political rights that
Union men are bound to respect, and as they
have set up negro slavery as q god to worship,
and rejected and now profess to spit upon
that Union which has made us happy at home
and respected abroad, | say turn this Ito
them) happy household into a nest of scor-
pions to sting them to death in order that
the Union may live. Yes, arm the slaves
form negro camps on the soil of South Caro-
lina-let their camp. fires burn as beacon
lights to direct the steps of their fellow
bondsmen, while our sharpshooters are
placed at convenient distance TO pick off
their rebel masters.
We are, as people, too much impregnated
with false notions of the sacredness OF slave
sol and the peculiar institutions OF the South.
So long as the now rebellious States were
in the Union, | have been in favor of giving
them full control over slavery in their States,
and guarding this species of property as |
would any other description but now, as
Davis, Yancey g. Co. protest that their States
will under no circumstances return to the
Union, let US say they shall even though we
be compelled TO proclaim freedom to the
slaves, drive the whole rebel crew into the
ocean and divide up the land among loyal
citizens who are fighting the battles for the
Union.
Do not let US give aid and comfort to the
enemy by quarreling among ourselves as to
what we will do with these emancipated
slaves. Let US first see the Stars and Stripes
wave unmolested on our own soil, and then
we will give attention to this secondary
question as to what we will do with the ne
groes. 1t would be better for the nation to
open negro boardiug-h house and furnish
walters for the blacks, than to continue the
sacrifice of life and treasure the country is
now at, added to which must follow W the loss
of honor in the event of the success of this
unholy rebellion.
The blacks, by thus acting; can have no
more claims upon this Government than
they have heretofore-they would be fight
ing alone for the freedom of their own race,
which they never could achieve uuaided. If
by this new change of their condition they
find themselves no better off, the fault or sin
will not be ours, but will be pointed at as one
of the fruits of the short lived Southern Con-
| federacy.
The South commenced the war, and have
inaugurated the mode of warfare indicated
| by employing the Indians, whom we have
fed, against US; 80 they will have nothing to
complain of on the score of employing in our
service an inferior race, to assist in fighting
| our battles.
Let us suppose mob of outlaws had
succeeded in taking possession of all the
public buildings in Cincinnati, and effectually
stopped the course of justice and order,
would not the constituted authorities be
justified in taking every advantage of the
aggressors in order to put them down, by
destroying them in any and every conceiva-
BILE way that could be devised2 l think
they would-aud looking on the Southern
rebels in the same light, can not see how
Union men can plead a mild and gentls
mode of warfare toward them. DELHI.