The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-11-01
ContraDanaa Going south.

tits stated that the Naval Expedition,
which sailed from Hampton Roads on
Tuesday morning,was accompanied by 1000
negroes, able bodied men, being part of
thenumber of escaped slaves that have gath
cred around Fortress Monroe since the COM
mencement Of hostillties in Eastern Virgin
is. These contrabands" are armed and
equipped with axes picks, and shovels, and
are expected to constitute most efficient
corps of the Army Of Invasion. When the
mint nf the Southern coast selected for at
entertainments and forti6cations, while our
valiant volunteers repel the attacks of their
assailants The soldiers win thus be re-
lieved Of much Of the drudgery incident to
invading hostile country, and viii be able
to devote all their attention to the rebels.
The effect Of thus attaching these negroes
to the Grand Expedition must be apparent
to all. Armed with their implements for
the erection of Notifications they
will create greater panic in the Gotten
States, than would four or Eve regiments of
our most dashing volunteers. It viii be re-
garded as throwing the lighted torch into
powder magazine. The shrewd leaders sof
the rebellion have diligently lahored to
poison the minds of both the poor whites
and the slaves of the South as to the inteu-
tons of our Government and its soldiers.
The whites have been made to believe that
our army ia composed Of the offscourings Of
our large cities-thieves, incendiaries, MUIR
derers-that It's motto is g beauty and
boosy''--and that if it's not driven back,
their children will be murdered, their
wives aud daughters ravished, aad the torch
applied to their homes, however humble
The slaves have been told that the design
of the federal army is TO murder them or
send them To- the Island Of Cuba; that
slavery ia to be abolished not by liberating,
but by sxterminating, the negroes. Our
army now on ita way South will have the
opportunity of refuting these absurd stories.
The whites viii be convinced by the gen.
tlemanly department OF our troops that the
stories circulated about them are all false;
that they are gentlemen, and in arms for
the protection of much.loved Union aud
the overthrow Of an unnatural rebellion
The slaves, az they behold the gangs of
cheerful negroes employed on the fortifca-
tions-relieving their hours of toll with
merry joke and stirring sonR-snd see them,
too, drawing their rations with the regu-
larity Of the soldiers, AID equal In quality
and quantity--'siu long to Join them and
participate IN their labors and enjoyments.
There Ia mysterious and imperceptible
chord of sympathy running through the en-
sire slave population OF the South--a COZ
eealed telegraph by which information is
conveyed from plantation to plantation
over which the news would speedily be |
transmitted from one portion Of the rebel
lions States to the other, that our govern
ment was employing negroes and paying
them for their services, that they were en-
joying all the fruits of liberty, and that no
design was entertained either Of massacre
ing them OF sending them to Cuba. The
number Of cOntrabands that viii flock to
sherman's army every day viii far exceed
the stampede at Hampton, and q panic will
occur in the Southern States that will, of
necessity, break up Beauregard's army, and
psralyEe the arms of the ,conspirators now
uplifted to strike at the heart of our gov
eminent. $50 sEs
That the Administration anticipates a
movement on the part of the negroes of