The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-15

sand men under General Sherman? But per-
haps General Sherman may get this news from
Governor F'ckens in season to justify an i'm
mediate movement upon Charleston. AT all
| events, Governor Pickens has given some most
valuable Information to the government, upon
which 1t should act with Nufsleonic prompt
! tude. Another blov or two liae that as Beau
| fort, and this spurious Southern despoliam Of
jeff, Davis will fall to pieces.
COLONEL JOHN CoofiRsNE ON Our WAR PoLfsY
ON THE SLAVERY QuEsrioF-A GREAT MISTAKE
IN our published repore (Which we have no
doubt Is correcD OF the remarkable speech de
iiycred by Colonel John C,chrane to lis regi-
ment--the New York First Shasseurs-we find
these observations, to witt
suppose said the speaker array encounters myriads
OF COTTON baies and able export those cotton
oaes 70 europe and receive from thcTa millions upon mil
ions OF mo sne@s Of war do yen say should not seize
the cotton No You are cear upon that point Suppose
that munitions Of that subsistence for their army
are within our reach, would be guilty Of shameful
neglect were we not to appropriate them our own use?
Certainly would Suppose the enemy adv AGAINST
you wou1 you, from any saueamshness from any false
doicacy. refrain dwelling the hostile pun and pros
trating them in death? No II is your OBJECT II Is yonr
purpose Then you seize their property if you open
their ports If you destroy their lives, ask You whether
viii not their slaves and whether you will carry
them by baialions into war against their rrasterss
This proposition is repeated in another part
Of the speech, in which, if general conisca-
ton Of the property Of rebels will not bring
them back to their old allegiance to the
Union, Col. Cochrane says:-"Do all this, and,
If that be not sufficient, take the slave by the
hand, place muske4 in it, and bid him in. Gods
name strike for the freedom Of the human race
Great checring.)"
Now we say that in this radical and startling
proposition Colonel Cochrane has committed q
great mistake. What would be the conse-
qucnces of a general arming Of the slaves
against their masters? The bloody scenes Of
St Domingo all over the South, involving the
most horrible atrocities Of savage violence and
butchcry upon the helpless women and children
OF the white race, and asavagc war Of extermi-
nation between the two races, ending, perhaps
only with the determination of both whites and
blacks With the South thus wasted and de-
populated by fire and sword, would our govern
ment be able to control our armies in the di-
vision of the spoils Of the rich and extensive
regions of farms and plantations thus falling
into their hands? No. Our armies would ap-
proprate those unoccupied Southern lands,
hold them against the government itself, and
set up for themselves an independent Southern
confederacy; for would not the temptations to
this course be too strong to be resisted?
Arm the slaves? No Colonel Coch-
rane, no! That way leads us to uni
versal slaughter and an indefinite reign
of anarchy. Our true policy, and our only safe
policy, is that of President Lincoln" the in
tcgrity Of the Union" What says Gen. Shcr-
man in his address to the people of South Caro-
lima? Mark his words" Carolinians, we have
come among You rs loyal men, fully impressed
with our constitutional obligations to the citi-
zens of your State. Those obligations shall be
performed as far as in our power; but be not
deceived" He implores them to pause and re-
fleet; he warns them that this rebellion will be
put down. He speaks not as a ruthless invader
who has come among them to waste, pillage and
destroy but as benefactor whose mission it is
to save and restore all the blessings of the good
government which those foolish people have
thrown away.
There can be no necessity, in any event, to
arm the slaves of the South against the masters.
We can employ the slaves Of rebel masters in
much better way. The shovel the hoe, the
rake and the woodlands axe are the proper
tools to put into the hands of the slave.
While our army is necessarily engaged
in consuming and destroying, let us at
least keep the slaves OF rebels falling into
our hands employed in the work of producing
! and saving, and let us make itSnanfest that the
only hope of safety to this peculiar institution
Of Southern slavery is the Union, and we shall
soon disarm this rebellion. In the border
slave States slavery has received shock from
! this war from which it must soon die out, and
| free white labor will more profltaby take its
| place. But slavery in the cotton States is a
| different thing, and there we must maintain it if
we desire the "integrty of the Union.o
We hope that Colonel Cochrane will make no
| more stump speeches until he shall have
achieved something in the way of fighting. Let
! him follow the example in speechmaking of
| General Mcclellan, meantime by declining to
make speeches. and he will be acting like a
sensible soldier. AS for tic report that the
! Secretary of War, ont and out, on the spot, en-
| dorscd this last and very imprudent speech Of
| Colonel Cochrane, we cannot believe it. Our
| reporter must have misunderstood General
| Cameron's remark, or the General must have
! failed to hear distinctly the remarks which he
| has been made to endorse as his cwn The
| administration has never dreamed, in any
| extremity, of arming the slaves of the South
| against their masters. The case of Fremont is
! conclusive upon this matter.
A SETTLEMENT AFTER THE WAR.-Present
| appearances afford fair prospect that
! by June or July next we shall have re-
| duced the South to submission, and be lett with
| an army of seven or eight hundred thousand
well trained men at our disposal. 1t is proba-
| bic that of this number at least two hundred
| thousand will have served under the rebel flag.
They will, for the most part, have acquired
such taste for military life that their relish for
civil occupations will be lost, and they will be