New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-14
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
The Necessity OF an Immediate An'""''
with the slaves Of the Rebels

hin, m the wood. before entered Redouot NO -
where the $50 Pennsylvania was digging the way 10
tho bosotai and t,e grave for many Oh i's rah auu
Gle. aud with painful labor only making new a"u''
,; ~ tho ,rpseprn of Yankee military curiosiues III
o.. yo,l, aud lanes River Peninsula. lis the sole
purpose the work viii serve
go ,o,v men in our trenches at York.
49,, s,w these. and along tie line TO Lees
,,us other and kindred regiments Of Pennsylvani-
ono ,ecruted in the valleys Of their noble State,
"a On ia mountain slopes, and out of its mines, and
- with what vigor, ana with what playful,
launching schoobcyish urdor Of industry they
nEed Grade, pick and shovel. Their muscles were
bio them aud their complications were bright, ana OUT
If their eyes shoue with the courage Of their race
the struggling faith and impotence Of young soldiers
IN the highes, condition, thirstiug for batie f'e-
CONS beyond all pricepeveTlo be Reproduced "ne'
wsaed-rbe wine of ihe youog warriors me IN"
The God-iusped drunkenness OF the inusket'oeaFing
patriot were not vet diss pated in these regiments
OH could they thea have been shot loose upon the
foe
Nv poor. pale.faced Estiess boy, you dig Alright
You do indeed 90 right merely incline your slight
we,,t AGAINST the top Of your shovel. just indeni
this wet and reluctant clay with the blade. With
Itl pufhes and ainlest lantOnine OF dltchng with
the once muscular foot row shTunken III Your shoe,
take up 10 more than your tin cupful Of earth, AND
throw it l;s,lessly up TO tie slope above you' Then
rest as from IA great labor, and look around with
look of WEAKNESS and, through The glazed sight OF
Lomesickuess, hunt over the dark swampy wood
beside you for your blue Aneganies; and find your
motuer, il you can, there, and your little brother
and the cows that chew the cud for you, and the
sheep that bieai for your band. Sigh ous sorrow-
fully as you pull again your shovel with yodr right
hand NJ to tie reach Of yOur left, q heavy weight
ftly to be dragged, and rest anew upon IT before
sou geeOmu,nce tbe pautomne OF the Solder IN Tie
Trench. And envious!y study me all over, anG
Though ny half-mtIsry costume take on inventory
of nv PRIVILEGES as civilian, and then fire up with
race az you sec gallop past the unfinished work in
which your regiment buries its hearts while eXca-
waiting he clay, giant negro upon the horse OF
staff officer Of The simple grade Of lieutenant. I Is
with natures action aud Justices that you turn your
shovel over with quick notion Of the hand and re-
card il win contempt from handle TO blade, and turn
i back with Jerk and wrathfnly measure every
mont Of it, non.mary surface from blade to handle
and then with erect figure and face 10
heaven
the waste and degradation OF an army Of invading
soldiers, by converting them into di9gers Of bitches
by night and by Gay-when the Heaven-spPoinxd
dger Of bitches by hundreds Of thousands, sre all
around, praying for the privilege Of taking the tools
out Of the bands OF troops and of casting in their
labor with cur fighting, as q common Offering upon
the altar of tie God who gives freedom TO ensaved
Republics. Invasion by shoves! Conquest by pick
ixes!i Invasion and conquest by sboyeis and pick
sxes welded by black Vugina's plantation laborers,
.rlv Northern infautrv sol5iers!l May the bot !
IONS # every transport which dial! be regbted with
-. tools q - and OF loss, and Of Iuin, bust
through on tto passage to h;sfeDnsua, AND each and
every ore founder 200 fathoms deep. ! would with
my own fingers gutter the rain water channel around
ny tent, and zee tue police Of u camp wholly done
with boards from biscuit boxes nailed TO young pine
tree s,sfls for tie Lii,sful exemption of ever be-
ho,dng again in an American army o. ,nrdstoH,
AN Ames shovel, or pickaxe. On my way TO
Yorktown-oh so long ago when ] disembarked
on the pier at Fort Monroe, and came UNEXPECTEDLY
upon at least four cor Of cas;-oeei sIovels and
vast eheeaar des jrse Of picks, wac struck with
a depression which compelled me 10 lay down MY
baversack, and to ell on box OF freight.
there looked fascinated a. that pile Of evil
omen. "Cord,d up by hands that are an
engineers and lot soldiers, you hold
within YOUR four damned sides the substitution
Of drudge's endurance for a warriors thrilling
nassions---there are successive delays within 70
wearsome encampments in residential swamrs-l
see going OF you endless proceeslon OF rack 10
hospitals and the grdves-wOrse, see ooze on, Of
YOU the enthusiasm of one hundred and thitytbrec
thousand volunteers. May God forefend that see
come out of you tie loss OF the eamrsign IN W.
rinia and the ruins Of a cause upon which hang
the politics of the world Corded up here an inev-
table and irresistible notification OF the foundation
maxim of war, CELEBRITY OF MOTION, when / re-
gard you with wet eyes, l can't repress the wish
that the mind that conceived Of you instruments of
tie nvaeion Of Virginia and loDgedfcr yOu dcalled
for you had been parayze into slaverDg idiocy be-
fore it accomplished the death and burial OF the nusket
and the bayonet You were in your place before Sc
vastopol. You will be useful again before Quebec.
But YOU had 10 business in q Summer invasion Of
this Peninsula and you will be, ard you can be,
only mlsclievous here. IL s indeed true that yon
nay become logical and necessary weapons Of war.
W may have to call on you TO intrench us for our
very existence, against the combined regiments of
tue Sou.h--to whom you shall have given time 10
swarm 10 Richmond. Mtlisons on tie hand that
wrote the order for you I"
But there they were-and straight of that pier
they would go, and mules and wagons would be torn
to pieces in getting them up the enswamped army,
ana Then would commence every delay and every
WEAKNESS known to the tcience of engineering.