The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-11-26
The Negroes N Clog Upon ti,e ADD
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! From the Newburyport Herald Rspubliesd.
The negroes are clog to and burden upon
} our armies IN the South. This 10 apparent
J by correspondence between General Dix and
J Governor Andrew in relation to sending five
hundred families to this State. The contra
! bands come within our lines and, as the arr
} my moves South, more and more will be bad.
! The universal testimony Is that they are
} worthless to us. A few Of them can, be put
, to work, but many are old and more children
J and q eat proportion women, who, from,
state OF comparative innocence, are corrup-
ted and depraved by communication with the
soldiers, and soon die, or, what is worse. live
J to spread disease AID corruption. They
J have done little taken as 3 whole, 10 what
has been done for them. They show no dis
pC stion to render themselves useful--they
have not the capacity or the will to be
SO; and most Of them look forward to Q re-
turn to their masters plantation. With these
ignorant and simple people there il great at
tachment to the place where they were rear-
ed-great love for those whom they have SER
vsd and much more comfort there than thes
can enjoy elsewhere.
| While the contrabands can do nothing for
the Government, they are big bill oi ex-
ponse. They have occupied the houses,
while the soldiers have been without sheitef
and in some instances have had new houses
built for them, while white men, defending
the country, were left out doors without
tent or blankets. They have drawn rations
At the expense Of the Government, and are
maintained as paupers, while the Govern
ment has never aided whites, as it has mo-
authority to, and but lew years ago refused
TO distribute wood, for which they had no
use at Washington among the poor of the
District Of Columbia, be, suse there was no
Constitutional right to do so. We remember
that in the election OF 1874, it was rung all
over the land that MIR. Polk had no sympa.
thy for the poor, because he voted against
disposal Of wood. Now. it does not appear
what we shall do with these people. We
can't turn the whole Southern country into
u Poor Farm" and have oyerseers and send
supplies forever. They must be placed SONS
where to earn their living and be out OF the
way Of the army. What can be done with
themP
General Dix asks Massachusetts, to take
five hundred families till the Governments
saall be ready to colonize them. The Gov
ornsr says no. There is not free State in
the Union where nlnty nine in every hum
daed voters would not protest against the iuI
PRODUCTION ofcontrabands from the South and
Governor Andrews out expressed the unani-
nous will of Massachusetts, When he saidi--
NO they shal! not Gomez t
But it is only till the Government can col.
onize, we are told. How long will that be?
Can any body look forward to the day when
the people will agree to find homes for tho
negroes and colonies them abroad2 What
condition Will the country be in, after this
war, to perform such work, If they should
wish to? There sre many things to remem.
ber about this colonising. The United
States has no power to do III 1t has no wish
to do it; 1t has no money to do it. Then the
blacks have no desire to leave, snd will not
go; il they had, there is no country which
will receive them. Whenever colonization
takes place, it must be slow process, in-
ereasing as the blacks succeed where they
are settled, al d as they rise here TO sec nj.
vantages Of separation from the whites.
To take the contrabands till the Govern
, ment is ready to colonize, is to take them tor
one century at least; and We repeat-nu
State will do il. If there was immediate
danger of an influx of negroes, We should
pass "black laws" like those Of the Vest
But can any body tell us what emancipation
amounts to if the centrabands are to stop
South? We often hear it said that never
will person who gains his freedom now bs
made slave again ;and President Lincoln has
made use OF such words, Il this amounts
to anything, it implies one of two ideas; Ell
ther the South by some process not yet
pointed out, will be in iavor Of their freedoms
and willing to share the land with them,
and live with free blacks, or the whre peo~
Pile Of the South are to be deprived Of self
government--of the power to make their
own laws. Suppose the war to close some
day-and that, we take it., is a supposable
case-then either the Confederate States will
be independant or returned to the Union;
and by what means are black people to be
free whichever way is it? II they are indie
pendant, will they recognize the freedom We
have given their slaves?
Every man will reply-uo; then slavery
will be re established. Very we'll, II they
roturn to the Union will they not have the
right to say what shall be the condition Of
their own people? For instance, will nos
South Carolina have the right to say that fee
negroes shall not remain within her limits
after given date, and if they do, that they
shall be sold? So she said when in the Union
before; how do you propose to prevent it
hereafter? Now every sane man must see
that either this re9olBiion is TO eep away
all State rights, or there is to be no freedom
for blacks in the South after the war, if
thousand tunes they should be freed during
the war. +F-
Here is the condition OF the cont, abands:
They can't get out of the South because the
Government can not send them abroad, and
10 free State will take them; and they ca1's
remain in the South without returning TO
slavery, unless this revolution is SO complete
as to distroy the States--wheh We all, blacks
: and whites together, sail become the
slaves of a mititaay despolism. THIS is ell
we can see in the future. The truth is, the
freedom of the blacks can not bs attained in
war without the destruction Of whites. IL
, it is ever gained-as it certainly will be-
it will be thought their mastsrs--when in
; the good time coming slavery is unprof,s.
BILE, reason rises above passion, justice tri-
umphs over love Of dominion. the Proyidence
OF Ged opens the door Tor their escape ont
the land, and the Chr istian religion developss
to more practical character than it attains
where wars prevail and slavery is no offence
against morality.
or Henry M. Brown, the hemurderef Of j.
F. Bollymer, was on Thursday, the 18th inst
taken from the Jail in Dayton to the Court
House. in buggy, for arraingment. Proper
precautions were taken against escape or res-
h,,o, A. s,.te e.,.s /