Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-07-30
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Bring on yOur NiEEers."
It is by hard knocks and desperate fight
ing and weary marching and unccasing
toll that all dmid conservatism is being
rasped away from the minds of the soldiers
Of the army and their friends at home
Tough and terrible experience is doing, day
BY day, what life time Of argument would
not have done with certain careful souls.
year of camp life and months of the
ceaseless drain upon ones energy and life
which comes of marching or fighting all
day and digging in the trenches all night,
has given new views to the Democratic el-
ement in the army and relieved it Of its in
stilled hatred Of abolitiOnism." II was
fatal mistake when the South went to war to
suppress negro agitation and put down the
aboitionists, Every man who has been i
the Grand Army Of the United States has
had abolition doctrine preached to him, not
by orators and speakers, but by the more
powerful argument Of fact which daily life
presents to him There are those who talk
and write glibly Of the conservatism Of
the army, and say that if an emancipa-
tion policy is adopted they will lay down
their arms. All such talk is sheerest non
4rsense And in proof that the army is be-
coming abolitionized, or at the least, is
ready to use the negroes to the utmost in
the labOrs Of the camp and field, we make
few quotations ffom those who have had
abundant opportunity to know whereof
they write. A gentleman lately in Wash
ington reports that he heard Gen. Pope say
few days ago, in regard to one of the
questions now before the public; want
to kin EN-; they have got to be killed, and
il is not for me to care what the color Of
the man is who viii help me to put an end
to them, so bring on your niggersi if they
viii fight, they shall have chance In-
Those are the words Of soldier who goes
into this war to win, and seeks military
and national more than political success.
Aspecial correspondent Of the New York
Times, writing from Old Point, says that
the new Executive orders respecting using
the property of rebels for military purpos-
es, and also for the employment of blacks
in the army, is hailed with the greatest
delight, by all loyal class, civil or military.
He says that the public should be assured
that this order came not a moment too soon,
and that the army win permit no tamper-
ing with it now it has been promulgated
Murmurs had been heard from many quar-
ters that the army would fight no more for
protecting traitors. They will die to a
nan, defending the country, but while
those who are for The Union viii be en-
couragod those who are against 1t viii be
overcome by any and every means known
to civilized warfare, and all side isms, be it
slavery or anything else, must and viii be
thrown overheard. A correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer writes that " for
their leniency and kindness toward the
rebels and neglect to use their property,
blacks and al, rebel prisoners and deserters
tell US that their leaders laugh at US and
hold us up to scorn for our folly" He
speaks Of the universal desire on the part
Of Federal officers and men to use the ne
groes in whatever way they may be made
useful. If these we're not proofs enough;
the letters Of soldiers from the camps
would be sufficient to refute the charge that
they are opposed to any cOlored element in
the army. They are too sensible Of the
labors and hardships of soldiers life to
desire to monopolize them