The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-03
How the South Look Upon the Loss Of TheiI
Negroes.

Negroes
The Richmond Dispatch Of he 9th Sept. calls
for legislation for the removal OF negroes, max
ing at the same time some important admi.--
ions. 1t says:
" The Federal nvasi'n, especially in its rea-
tons to negroe. has thus far been John Brown
raid on grand scale Wherever the Union ar
mics have advanced the negroes have been swept
off as clean as the Eastern ocnsts sweep field Of
grain Not one green or black thing is LETT 10 the
line Of the Yankee march, nor in the whole coun-
try for many miles around. The Piedmont the
Upper Valley, the Peninsula, the country watered
| BY the Rappahannock and the Potomac, have been
stripped of their population. This war has as
sumed the character of grand Negro Hunting
! Expedition. Of victories the Yankees have gained
few negroes many. What becomes of the game
| it is impossible to say nor is that matter Of
much importance. The loss, ho,Deuer, Of so yatu-
able an element Of strength and prosperity Is q
matter of such moment that the Legislature Of the
State ought at once TO take measures for the pre-
uention Of similar cdtamt,es IN the future. This
can only be done by law providing for the re-
moval of negroes from all threatened districts to
the interior. 1t will not do to leave this TO the
discretion or judgment OF he masters. In some
cases they too ndoent to take the proper
precautions for the security of their property. In
others they are ceuded by implicit confidence in
the fidelity OF their servants and, notwithstand-
ing the experience which the war has furnished
that the neghborhood of Yankee army creates
as complete a stampede among negroes as the
approach OF locomotive among cattle, there are
thousands Of masters VINO continue to believe thai
their servants will not run under similar lempla-
tons, and footiShty erpoSs them 10 temptation
is clear, therefore, that there IS no security 70,
the negro property Of the State, unless the Legis
ature makes the removal of The negroes FROM
districts exposed to invasion compulsory. We
trust the necessary action will be taken prompt
y, for the Slate has already suffered enormous loss
es from this cause which, by precautionary legis-
a,ion, might all have been prevented"
GENERAL CURTIS ON THE WAR.-Maior Gen
eral Curtis, in letter 10 his friends in Keokuk
Iowa, says:
Break down the rebel armies, confsicdte III,
property of their supporters, deprive the rebels O
their Slaves and their substance PROSTATE foes anc
elevate friends and the Union men in thousands
who now tremble 10 the presence Of the appre
henson Of it's return, will proclaim their devotion
to our government and unite with earthly il
restoring peace and prosperity to our once happy
country.
have campagned through three Of the so
called Confederate States, and express to you IN,
observations and convictions. The republic can
not be severed. There is no geogra pbical, mora
or political line, on which to divide. No foreigI
power could prescribe one that could satisfy eithe
party.
We have embarked in death struggle, ant
have no alternative but to steadfastly press for
ward the engines Of war and all honorable dis
turbng elements i'll rebellion, weary and wor
out and overpowered abandons its wicked de
signs and yields 20 the Constitution and the laws
bands Of robbers, such we see in Missouri
will survive the war, and society will for lon
time be pestered with thieves and Migrants VIII
carry on their raids for plumber; but local organ
za,ions will ultimately stiAe such elements, an
peace and security will gradually return"
AcCtDENT.-We learn that Lorenzo Kidde
of Randolph a soldier who was detached /