The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-08-01

large proportion of these deaths were unnec-
essary. These noble young men we're sacri-
need on the altar of American caste. The
deadly swamps of the Chickahominy, and the
slckiy trenches at Corinth, are both monu-
ments of American prejudice, and the divine
punishment upon If. Halleck and McClel-
Ian have both been defeated by the same
cause. Had our eastern general. from the
beginning, only acted as any military man
would have acted in any other country, and
invited into his camps, on promise of free
dom, all negroes who would dig entrench-
ments, he would have had, by the time he
reached the Chickahominy, thousands of
muscular men, used to the climate and to
the night air; good diggers and laborers,
with whom he could have intrenched his ar
my, while his soldiers were preserved fresh
and healthy. Though encamped in the most
maiarious district north cf the Carolinas, he
neglected 10 do this. Another offering had
to be made to the Moloch of slavery. The
caste feeling of the army, or the ancient rev.
erance for the aristocricy Of slavery, preferred
TO offer our young men 70 the typhus and
the swamp-feyer, rather than employ the ne
gro, or disturb the sacred institution"
so the unnumbered thousands died from
these terrible miasmata. Gen Halleck, too,
offered a cor siderable portion of his army at
the same shrine, and then, (still adoring the
image of the black goddess,)by driving the ne
gro from his camps, he deprived himself of
his best scouts and spies, and thus at last
saw his campaign end in a miserable failure,
which even his gran6i,oquent kilograms Of
mythical numbers of prisoners taken, have
not redeemed in the public estimation. Yer
lily the Almighty, as with the curses of
Egypt. is showing to this people what shall
be its punishment Our bitter and uncris-
tan prejudice against the negro is returning
home 10 US, and is scattering pestilence and
death.
+ All the world see with astonishment and
confusion a war carried On for freedom in
which the only right preserved is the right
of man to his salves, and where the one
side strikes without fear or mercy, and the
othes dares not touch his enemy's weakness,
though that weakness has caused all the
trouble. But at length the time has come
when, as SO many of US have expected, God
has appointed that We must either ask the
help of the despised slave, or see the proud
1aSpuUllc ldll llllO ulStIdDlt Iulll we uasc
no weapon remaining now but the armed
slave. We are on the brink of destruction.
: Proclamations, confscation bills, levies of
hundreds of thousands, will be useless, un-
less We do justice-free the slave and arm
him. In fact, it is evident that without We
use the slave, We shall not succeed in getting
r willing army of white men. Yet now, with
f shattered army, with tens of thousands in
hospitals and on sick-beds, with victorious
rebel force close by our capital, with foreign
intervention hanging over US, such is the
madness of the old pro-slavery party and the
, ingrained habit of obsequiousness TO slave
I aristocraey,that We believe our generals would
let slavery and the slave alone, f they were
not forced to action by Congress Or the pres
ident. The Almighty gives US one more
3 chance for safety and redemption. Perhaps
4 in few days it will be too late; and on the
ruins of the American Republic will be in
scribed, "She perished because she would moi
do justice to the slave"