The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-07-24

e"husiaSm "Dcn l'bPelS 10 great deeds ]"
And now. ifihe gentleman will allow
me, | want to add that Niles, in his His
tory Oi the War 1f 1919. sp,es that fully
one fourth Of the men who fought the
battle Of Lake Erie, under CctHmodore
Perry, were negroes. -r" a''e .
Mr.. Wicklife. The gentlomsS Is mis-
taken in that. a. =. .rs s.a l..
Mr. Stevens. This is common hlaioryI
the history Of the world. and tie history
Of our country;and am astoDished, there.
fore, At the remark Of the gentleman who
last addressed you, from Kentucky.
again assert, Ihere is no record TO the
contrary in the history of nations every.
where; nations have always employed
rolored men when it became nece ssary,
and colored slaves where it was nscessa
|, lfy-liberating them.
Nj. sedgwick. Will the gentleman
yield to me for moment?
Mr.. Stevens. Certainly. t..'.....
Mr.. s dgwick. desire to read a pa.
per Which has been furnished me by The
librarian Of the State Of New York upon
/ the sdbject Of the employmen. Of colOred
men 10 the armies 6f other countries,
. NEGROES UEDER MoNAacHtcAL Gov
ERNMESTs. s.--The nionarchical Govrrh:
} ments of Europe and America. those that
tolerate slavery and those that do not.
{ alike agree in employing negroes armed
! for the public defense. They find that
} the burdens Of war, and the sacrifice Of
life it occasions, are too great to be borne
+ by the white race alone. They call upon
} the colored races therefore TO share iu tie
turden. and 10 encounter, in common
, with the whites. the risks Of loss of life.
"Thus we find that the Spanish colony
5 of Cuba. with population one half slaves
and one sixth colored, militia OF free
blacks and mulsttoes was directed by
Gen. Pezuela (Governot Gsneral) to be
organized In 1854 throughout the island
and il was put upon an equal footing will
, regard to privilege with the regular army
o This measure was not rescinded by Gov
b Concha in 1855, but the black ahd mu
D lslto troops have been made perthanen
n corps Of he Spanish army. (Condehsed
in the phrases Of Thrasber's pre- efacs tc
e his edition OF Humboldt's Cuba.) ...s.
o Tin the Portuguese colonies On the sossi
& Of Africa. The regiments ate chiefly com
posed of,b'ack men. At Princess island
!, the garrison consists ofa company of reg
b ular artillery Of eighty. and regiment o
is back militia of ten hundred and 6f.y
eight rank and file. of which the Colone
is awhile man. At St. Thomss there ar
j. two Regiments of black militia. In Lean
do, the Portuguese can. on an emergenc
: Of war with ths natives, bring into th
field twenty-five thousand partially ciyi
70 lied blacks armed with nuskets. SUE
!: cessful expeditions have actually, bee
Al made with Eve thousand of them accompu
J.. MED with four or FIVE hundred white sol
diers. from Valdes's Six Years on th
D. West Coast Of Africa, London: 1861
8. Two vols. 8vo.) .-.l..4.
IS "In tie Dutch colony Of tie Gold Coal
IN Of Africa. with population Of one hur
e, dted thousand; the garrison Of the for
er ress consists of two hundred eollierl
Is whites, mula!tees. and blacks, under
re Dutch Colonel.
rd AIN the capital Of the French colony
in Senegal. on the same coast, at ST. Lou
The defense of the place is III the hands
or eight hundred black soldiers. (The PR
n ceding facts are also from Valdez.)
ng "In the Danish island Of st. Croix,
n the West Indies for more than trent
BY FIVE years past, there have been employ,
n two corps Of colored soldiers, ia the pre-
an ence Of slaves. (From Tuckerman's s.,
III la Cruz ''' ''" " ....
g ."In Brazil notwithstanding its thr
million slaves, its monarchcal Cover
ol- ment employs all colors and races 10 Il
ss' military service either by enlistment
no iorcible seizure. The police Of the city
In Rio de Jauero is military organizstiC
by composed mostly Of Colored men. drillt
es, and commanded BY army officers. r.
ID navy is principally manned by civiliz
on aboriginss. (Hiddvr Ewbank u;
MI 'In Turkey no distinction Of color
n.y. race is made in the ranks Of the regul
70 army. Distinction is made, however,
the ground oil difference Of faith. r
es, army is composed of Mohammedans.'
ect Christians and Jews are never recruite
our The result is one which the Goyernme
u.s. of Turkey to-day contempla'es with
a. larm. For the last two hundred year
having been frequently engaged in w'
ngs her Mohammedan population has be
'ot greatly reduced thereby. while her Chr
In tan population at one time greatly In
per rior in numbers. has now by peace
8 o extraordinarily increased as to bid f
81 soon to divide the empire. And she dt
you no. nov in their strength, arm them
Ind her soldiers as conscripts. notwithstar
ing her desire to do it," G,r r..
my - =
age Mr.. Stevens. You cannot conquer
y South so long as you leave them lh
the slaves to ocultivate the soil through the
in months, when ,ha. awful god with
ent' silver bow shoots his fiery arrows 10
Eof' very heart Of every white man who g
. into the South. Until you adopt y
90 policy, even If you we're to overrun all
:, cotton States, you mus. give them up
tile the summer, for you could not hold the
ad. An overseer. as We all know peffec
'red wsll, on the rice plantations Of South G
oliDa, dars not, although acclimated, 81
outside his house after n;gatfall; but
Life goes within it, and the Black does
work. You must putacclimated soldie
lie l men whose peculiar constitutions
u to bear the climate, 70 be your sen;ir
ulo. mid ,ha foua and dAnnA Of the south