The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-08-06

The most extraordinary developments are
now being made about the war in South Caro-
lima. Tie generals in that section, when any
comment is made on their conduct of the war,
| fight their battles over again on paper, and
| come out with letters in the public journals.
| General Hunter. in attempting to vindicate his
policy, establishes the opposite. His conclu-
sions are directly at variance with the facts
which he produces to sustain them. He there
fore stultifes himself. He says
Ahou gh it well known that give passes North 10
all negroes asking them not more than dozen have APP
piled TO me for such passes since my arrival here their
local attachments being apparently much stronger
than Nth The uhite race. My experience leads
me to believe that the exact reverse Of the re-
ceved opinion this subject would the rule and
that nearly if quite all the negroes OF the North
would migrate South whenever they shall be at liberty
do 80 without fear of the auction block.
1t is very clear that neither nature nor edu-
cation has made General Hunter logician
or statesman. Only dozen negroes, with
all the seductions practiced by the abolition
teachers, could be induced to go North. What
commentary on the whole system. The "local
attachments" of the negroes Of which General
Hunter speaks embrace attachments to their
masters and their masters families, and every
attempt to make them hostile will
prove a failure. There may be few
exceptions; but the general rule about their
love of their masters and their desire to be let
alone is just as evident as the rule about their
attachment to the place of their nativity. To
arm the negroes, therefore, against their mas
tiers would be the most absurd of all human
follies. To press them in order to employ them
in the trenches is wise and proper; but if arms
are put in their hands it is extremely probable
they would turn them at the first opportunity
against Northern men instead of Southern, as
they are said to have done on Roanoke Island.
man and the negro has ever been far greater
than between the Southern man and the black
race. General Hunter says it is necessary to
arm the negroes if they are employed in the
trenches, in order to defend themselves. Now,
as they cannot very well fight and work at the
same time, it is obvious that the proper mode
Of protecting them is by detailing force of
white men, who will always be found the right
race for that business, while the blacks will
suit better for digging bitches. To say that we
need negroes to defend US in arms is libel on
the Anglo-Saxon race.
The vain and fanatical attempt to disturb the
relation between the Southern negro and his
war to put it down should prove unsuccessful
the persistence in the emancipation scheme will
have been the cause of its failure. Our Nash.
vile correspondence in Mondays HERALD
throws some light on the subject. We make
the following extract
A slave belonging TO Judge McGavock was brought
before the Provost Marshal to-day, charged with carry
ing communications between tho rebels and their sympa
thizcrs here. is the first contraband that has been
publicly accused Of any matter Of that sort but hare
doubt there are many others Uho coud prefer remdia
uncertainties Of life al the North Some masters and
mistresses enforce obedience among their by
threatening to send them North We have been expect
ing some stirring news from Battle creek near Chatta
nooga Bodies Of troops both sides have been there
for some time But, instead Of hearing news OF bloody
conflict the latest report is.hat both Union and rebel
soldiers battle together in the creek quite socially The
intercourse is quite harmonious. and day corinces
that If this Is 10 be of emancipation thousands of
Norshem troops uu refuse 70 fight thsre for time
Here is food for reflection for our govern
ment, and if we are to have success it is mani
fest that emancipation must be repudiated
The abolitionists are but handful, and their
opinions are entitled to no consideration. Not
only have they kept aloof from the war, unless
to get contracts from it, but their whole course
has been to discourage the patriots who are
fighting the battles of the country, by their at
tempts to change the issue, and to inaugurate
a new kind q war, which was not contemplated
by the President or the people when the con-
hict began. But they cannot succeed, and they
will be put down as inevitably as the seces-
sionists.
AS to General Sherman's letter, he shows
that the real cause of his failure to cap
ture Charleston and Savannah did not
lay with him, but with the War De-
partment, which did not send him sufficient
troops. Had it done so both those cities
would have been taken, the contraband traffic
in arms and ammunition would have been
stopped, and Savannah or Charleston could
have been made base Of operations to cut
off the East from the West of the rebellious
States, and also the South from North Carolina
and Virginia. In fact, Virginia itself might
have been operated upon from South Carolina,
and fatal blow to the rebellion might have
been long since struck Our principal objec-
ZION 10 the pr0cIamatlons OF Dotn sherman and
Hunter was that they put the wagon before the
horse; they might have done well enough after
decisive victories, but were highly imprudent
before. inasmuch as they were calculated to
prevent success. The epithets we applied to
General Sherman's proclamation were hypo-
thetical; we regarded a proclamation, without
doing anything in the fighting line, as br7aun
filme,. But as General Sherman explains that
this was the fault Of the War Department, and
in view Of the general good sense Of his letter.
we withdraw those epithets and hope the Gene
raj will soon give good account Of himself
Action, and not writing or talking, must restore
the Union.