The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-08-13
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las han9 labof, l55 women, ~ cbildfsn
nnsier The asf x "a year. and - heiussa
lV a7ad 5eAHs, and many faofn coming
ia. thc qaeaions wbiel flsss sfai,. If fass.
present are tefy embarrassing
What ,l.all g. Dose uiih tlem Z
ahd. Nfesd, Ahas Is ll.e.r aa.o aud caa.
dition
Iaa lhcse questions desire ,he g.
afaeslons q lhe Department
The fret qao.iion. however. nHy psr.
hap. ~ answered b considering tic hst
Ane ihese men, women, and children.
slaves Are iAey frnpf Il their candi.
l'ou shat 81 men. women and cliidrcn. or
that 81 property, OF Is Il mixed relation
What their safes Was under lhc Consiilu.
tioa and hws we aiI know What has
icfg ihc eject q rebellion and state a.
nar upau that aaiNs When / adopted
The lheofy Of treating the ablc-b0died ne.
gru q ~ work ia lhe trenches, a. property
lsable - b nsed Ia aid 81 rebellion. and 20
eoblialsanl d war, ihat condition Of things
Vas in 80 fac met o. then and slill bo.
lievc, on a legal aud constitutional basis.
bot nov "a ucw series 81 questions arise
Passing by women, The children certainly
cinB@ By treated On that basi, Il prop
erty. ihey must Dc considered The incum.
hranec. rather than The auxiliary Of 40 ar
NY and, q course. ia no possible legal re-
laiion. could be- treated AS eonirabanl.-
Aro they property II they we're 30 they
have been lett by their masters and own
ers, deserted, thrown away, abandoned.
Ike the wrecked vessel upon the ocean,
Their former possessors and owners have
causelcssly, iraitorously, rebeliously, and.
70 carry out the figure practically ADAM
,sent5 them ~ he swallowed % by the
Winter storm u starvation. If properly.
do they not become The properly Of the
salgorsf but We, their sal,ors do not /
need and viii not hold such properly and i
viii assume no such ownership. Has not. ,
therefore all proprietary relation ceasedf
Have they not become thereupon men. wo-
men and children? No longer under d
ownership of any kind, the fearful relicts o
Of fugitive masters, have they not by their =
acts and the state Of war assumed =
the condition, which we hold to be the nor
NAL one, OF those made in Gods image g
Is not every constitutional, legal aud moral Il
requii cment, as well 10 the runaway mas al
Ter M their reinquisbcd slaves, thus an "a
swered confess that my own mind is
compelled by this reasoning TO look upon =
hem as men and women. If not free born. ~
fei free mannmitted, sent forth from the ul
Iand that held them never TO be reclaimed. ii
OF course, If this reasoning thus imper-
ectly set forth is correct, my duty as r.
humane man is very plain. / should take
he same care Of these men, women and -
hiidrcn, houseless, homeless and unpro- gr
.ided for, rs would Of the same number us
4 men, women and children who. for their IN
attachment 10 the Union, had been driven I.
e allowed 10 flee from the Confederate 80
'ia,es. should have no doubt on this CIV
nestlon, had not seen it stated that an
rider had been issued by Gen. Mellow cal
III. IN his department. substantially for fra
iddng all fugitive slaves from coming =
lthin his lines or being harbored there. "
: the order TO be enforced in all Military rev
II so, who are 70 be con sot
dercd fugitive slaves? Is slave 10 be
fugitive whose master runs G
way and leaves him Is it forbidden TO
C troops TO aid or harbor within their rs
nes the negro children who are found pea
erein, or is the soldier when his march me
Us destroyed their means of subsistence. fem
allow them TO starye because he has ~,
iyen of the rebel master? Now. shall ''''
c commander Of regiment or battalion sen
IN judgment upon the question. whether INN
y given black man has fed from his use
lster, or his master fled from him. In ina
cd, how are the free born TO be distin-
ishedt Is one any more or less a funi- "
c slave because lac has labored on the new
bel intrenchments If he has so labor sibl
II understand it, he is to be harbored. ernI
! the reception Of which are the rebels dra,
~ 10 be distressed, by taking those who =.
sc wrought all their rebel masters de- NY
cd, masked their battery, or those who tow
ve refused 10 labor, and left the battery thro
masked \
have very decided opinions upon the our
ilect OF THIS order. Ii does not become matt,
10 critieise IL, and write in no spirit .l
criticism, but simply 10 explain the full ~ :,
icuiies that surround the enforcing H. eio'i
he enforcement Of that order becomes Tho:
policy Of the Government. /, as a sol and
r, shall be bound TO enforce it Steadfasi- NO :,
If not eheerfully. But it left TO NV ~.
. discretion, as you may have gathered
n my reasoning, should take widely cato
crent course from that which il indi- land
- 10 th
n loyal State | would put down a paris
tilc instruction. In state Of rebel. struo
would contiscaie that which was used AMI
ppose my arms, and take all that prop
!, which constituted The wealth Of thar n'sS
Ie, AID furnished the means by which ton
war Is prosecuted, besides being the whic
e Of the war and II, IN 50 doing. Il
AID be objected that human beings were III