Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1862-09-27

anu Kill; we nave I0ugnt wolves with the devices
Of sheep. The result Is just what might have been
expected. Tens Of thousands are fighting in the
rebel ranks to-day whose original bias and natu-
raj leaning would have led them into ours.
vi. We complain that the con6scation act
which you approved is habitually dsregarded by
your generals and that no word Of rebuke for
them from you has yet reached the public ear
Fremonts proclamation and Hunters order favor.
Ing emancipation were promptly annuled by YOU
while Halleck's No. 8 forbddng fugitives from
slavery to rebels to come within his lines-an or.
der as unmitaty as inhuman and which received
the hearty appreciation Of every traitor in Amer.
ca--with scores Of like tendency have never
provoked even your remoDstrance. We complain
that the officers Of your army have habitually re-
PEELED rather than invited the approach Of slaves
who would have gladly taken the risks of escap-
ing from their rebel masters to our camps, bring.
ing intelligence often Of inestlmabe value TO the
Union cause We complain that those who have
thus escaped to us, ayowing a willingness to do
for US, whatever might be required, have been
brutally and mady repulsed, and often surrender.
ed to be scourged, manned and tortured by the
ruIian traitors, who pretended to own them. We
complain that large proportion Of our regular
army officers, with many Of the volunteers, eyince
far more socitude to uphold slavery than to put
down the rebellion. And finally, we complain
that you, Mr., President, elected as Republican
knowing well what an abominaton slavery Is, and
how emphaticaly it is the core and essence Of thus
atrocious rebellion seem never to interfere with
these atrocities, aud never give direction to your
military subordnates which does not appear to
have been conceived in the interest OF slavery
rather than Of freedom.
VII. Let me call your attention TO the recent
tragedy in New Orleans, whereof tho facts are OBJ
tanned entirely through pro slavery channels. A
considerable body Of resolute, able bodied men,
held in slavery by two rebel sugar planters, in
defiance Of the cOniiscation act which you have
approved, left plantations thirty miles distant and
made their way to the great mart of the South.
west, which they knew to be in undsputed possess
sion of the Union forces. They made their way
safely aud quietly through thirty miles Of rebel
territory, expecting 10 find freedom under the
protection Of our flag, Whether they had or had
net heard Of the passage Of the confscation act,
they reasoned logically that we could not kill them
for deserving the service Of their life long oppres-
sorsr who had through treason become our i'm
placable enemies They came TO US for liberty
and protection, for which they were willing to ren.
der their best service they met with hostility,
captivity and murder. The barking of the base
ours Of slavery in this quarter deceives no one
not even themselves. They soy, indeed, that the
negroes had no right to appear in New Orleans
armed with their implements Of daily labor in
their cane lleld3 but no one doubts that they
would gladly have laid these down, # assured that
they should be free, They were set upon and
manned, captured and killed, because they sought
the benefit Of that act Of Congress which they
nay not specifically have heard Of, but which was
none the less the law of the land-which they had
clear right TO the benefit ol-whChit it was some
bodys duty to publish far and wide in order that so
many as possible should beimpeled to desist from
serving rebels and the rebellion and come over to
the side Of the Union They sought their liber.
ty in strict accordance with the low Of the land
they were butchered or re-ensaved for so doing
! by tho help of Union soldiers enlisted to fight
againsti slave holding treason, 1t was somebody's
fault that they were SO murdered--if others shall
hereafter suffer in like Manner in default Of ex-
plicit and public direction To your Generals that
they are to recognize and obey the confscation
act, the world will lay the blame on you. Wheth.
er you will choose to bear it through future histo.
ry and at the bar Of God, | will not Judge. can
only hope.
VIII. On the face Of this wide earth, Mr..
President, there is not one disinterested, deter.
mined, intelligent champion Of the Union cause
who does not feel that all attempts to put down
the rebellion aud at the same time uphold its 10.
citing cause are preposterous and futile--that the
rebellion, Il crushed out tomorrow, would be re.
newed within q year Il slavery were left in full
vgor-that army officers who to this day remain
devoted to slavery can at best be but half way 10y
al to the Union-and that every hour ofdeference
to slavery Is au hour Of added and despensd peril
to the Union. Iappeal to the testimony Of your
ambassadors In Europe 1t is freely at your
service, not at mine Ask them to toll you can
didly whether the seeming subservienCy Of yOul
policy TO the slayehoding, slavery upholding in.
terest is not the perpIexty the despair Of states
men Of all parties, and be admonished by the gen
eral answer
TX. close as began with the statement
that what an immense majority Of the loyal mil
lions Of your countrymen require Of you is frank
declared, unqualified ungrudging execution Of thu
laws Of tho land, more especially Of the conasca
ton act. That act gives freedom TO the slaves o
rebels coming within our lines, or whom thost
lines may at any time enclose-we ask you to rem
der II due obedience by publicly requiring oil you
subordinates to recognize and obeyit. The rebel
are everywhere using the late autlnegro riots ii
the North, as they have long used your officers
treatment negroes in the South, to convince th'
slaves that they have nothing to hope from
: Union success-that we mean in that case to sci
J. them into bitterer bondage to defray the cos
Of the war. Let them impress this as truth OF
the great mass Of their ignorant and credulou
bondmen, and the Union will never be restored
a never We cannot conquer ten millions Of peO
y pie united in solid phaanx against us, powerful
: aided by Northern sympathizers and Europea
!. allies We must have scouts, guides, Spies cook
J teamsters, diggers and choppers, from the black
: Of the South, whether we allow them to fight lC
/ us or not or we shall be bailed and repelled.-
Y As one Of the millions who would gladly hay
: avoided this struggle at any sacrifice but that
= = principle aud honor, but who now feel that th
! triumph Of the Union is Indispensable not only
: the existence Of our country, but to the well b
y Ing Of mankind, entreat you to render q heart
= and unequivoCal obedience To the law Of the Ian
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