Worcester daily spy., 1861-12-03
The Port Royal ExpedItIOn-Gen. Sher-
mans PrOcIamatIOn-1'he BLACK Flag
The 'heathen Rage"

Ihe "heathen kage'
From the New Orleans Picayune
The Yankee expedition, which has just
made its descent on the coast OF South Caro-
lima, with the partial success reported by tele-
graph, is another John Brown raid, eXpan ed
into hideous magnitude by all the capacities
for evil OF Il yengeful government There
have been, from time 10 time, feeble efforts to
disguise The malignant purpose Of the man Ill
power at Washington 10 make the 'Cdr one for
ertcrmindtiOa IN that Oy1ieT 10 establish Meir poWef
oter the millions ento haze Mrown oB' their domin-
ION. Fremont's proclamation was eqnivocay
modified, to suit the eXigencies OF campaign
within STATE where there were deluded slave
holders c0ntending alongside of abOlitiOniSts
as Union men. To cheat willing dupes in
Kentucky and Missouri there were hollow
protrstations made, that the administration
would invariably cause the titles of slave
property 10 be respected and separate itself
from the extreme wrong OF It's supporters, who
are Tor making the war an abolition crusade.
But those shallow prelences ale now thrown
aside, not suited TO the emergency IN
which the north now finds itself in con
fronting a unanimous south. Inc black e.
smeht is openly adopted as a tired principle
in the war. The supposed terrors OF a
servie insurreciion are held up for in
timidation, and the Indictment Of such Il war
actually attempted in all the forms Ut an
avowed public policy, as the chosen means in
Christian age, for settling political contro-
versies with nine millions OF white Christians,
and Il government calling itself republic, 10
extinguish in blood the liberty OF Withdrawing
from insupportabe tyranny.
There is no possible way by which any man
within the northern states can delude himself
hereafter with the notion that his government
is not prosecuting war of relentless subjnga-
nf ., III, tiNf nf
no longer an incident, but prime object; no
longer a means, but distinctly an end The
proof is glaring in the instructions from the
war department 10 the commander of the great
expedition, in which the authority Is conferred
TO take into the service of the national army
call tugitives from labor" and 10 organize
them under military rules, and to arm them at
his discretion. There is a miserable attempt
at aston il cautoning the military authorl-
ties that it is not intended that there should be
a general arming Of the negroes only
such arming as the officers may think
necessary for the object of success IN
the securing of the conquest Of the country.
The loyal aboitionists interpret this i'll lis nat
ural sense when they say that it authorizes
$4,000 or 500 900 as the service may require.
alt will embrace" the Chicago Tribune
urges, "al the slaves, if it needs that many to
help the government to crush the rebellion
1t is to be noted too, that the secretary's order
directs the military to accept and muster into
the service OF the United States all fngitives
who present themselves, but makes no provis-
ion for the return OF any of them to their own
ers. Even the loyal owner, if there be such
a creature in South Carolina, who has lost his
negro, by being converted into il black Union
soldier, is referred to congress for payment for
his loss The negro is never TO be restored.
~"E5rre a. varfetifcR Rtssq5., NashltgtQn has thus
tion on its flag, as gladly as John Brown did
when he led on his tOrlOrn gang of despera-
does into Virginia. Lincoln, and Cameron,
and Sherman, are as fit subjects as he was for
the glbbet, which punished one miserable vii
lam for crime which becomes the more mon.
strous in them that they perpetrate il in the
name OF II great government, and enacted by
halt million of bayonets. 1t is an unmistak-
Bile fact OF this bloody and atrocious programme
that the army of invasion is ACCOM-
panied by a thousand "contrabands, or fugi
tves from Virginia masters, to be the nucleus
OF this new black army OF "the Union, and to
give warning to stubborn shareholders that
the north will devastate the whole land, and
make it uninhabiable by white men, it it is
not permitted 10 be master over the owners of
the soil.
With this black flag unfurled against us, the
people OF the south can see what ii is against
0hich they must fight, scih all their souls aid all
their strengthens they ,could fight on the deck ota
ship al sea, boarded by pirates, or as they oouId
intfench themselves in their own houses against
dSSdSSlnS. There could be no thought Of a
surrender while there was strength to WELD
weapon, or TO die graphing a detested enemy
And there is the buoyant faith that courage
faith in the invincbility OF brave race defend
ing righteous cause. and trust in Divine
Providence to battle the crimes of men and
nations, will save this land from incffabe pol
luton. 1t is with amazement and horror
more than alarm, that we record these proofs
OF the frenzy which has obiterated in the
northern heart all moral and humane instincts,
and turned into a horde Of bowling demons IL
race lately of our own household, who were
nurtured under the daily teachings of a gospel
OF peace.