New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-14


every hard labor known to desnsve warfare, &hd
Tie opening al settlement Of wilderness country
D,,mne,s. tap your drums, and call your rot, Ser
geaI.ts and find me, if you can, l,2o0 mel OF
Sickles's Brigade. Where are the rest l take
these negroes of Virginia 10 witness against the mat
rcidai policy of carrying On war against our eoun'
try instead Of against our counirys enemies, that
they have been killed with the shovel and the pick
axe-that they have literally dug tier OWL graves
and channeled their permanent admission INTO our
swamp -encircled hospitals. These negroes OF Nlr-
GINA the witDesses-pantipg as with fever for the
privilege of contributing their accuated labor to
this war, that should have been q war of Freedom.
but tins far has only been war Of iEfsn'icde-the
killing of her own warrior by an infatuated ma
ton mother. Why do we not employ the slaves !
To take the whole question by the ont, why have
we not made the slaves of tho South our military
allies in every respect
To whatever of Reason and Justice sensible men
have 10 justify this alliance, unbes,atingly add The
testimony OF quarter of yenrs experience IN our
Peninsular War. that II is utterly impossible for us
10 spJdue the Re6eis, U,thom an alliance 10Th he.'
Slages.
NV radical reason for this faith IT, that no nation
can long carry OH war which is not economical.
Thus far through this war; the first trob of economy,
or the b, ginning of tbrob hss not been felt Wnen
the War WIS organized, IT seemed as f the Devil or
the Border-S,ale Politicians and at the head OF them
the Secretary Of - had woven Bankruptcy deeply
TITO it, and prepared for inevitable failure. But
fine In the character Of the Southern country, In
its immense extent, and in the impacabe, domineeF-
ing temper of lis white population, insurnoan'aoie
obstacles to Our unsidsd success.
We demonstrated before Manassas that we needed
The aid of tie slaves. The history Of war does not
present en- example Of such chronic ignorance Of the
eremy's strength and movements as We camped
stolid under for six months, within Ten miles OF the
foe. When they began 10 evGcuate corn-fe'd,
which only our thick ignorance Lad converted into a
Sevastopol, we knew nothing Of il. Tlev marched
away with cannon, wagons, food, baggage, every
tling-not leaving dollars worth OF property
behind making a fartiess retreat. We knew
nothing of it. a peGd!er from aNew-EDgland State,
driving horse of the barebones breed, was the first
man TO enter the evacuated Manassas and rs he stood
up in his waeon-front, gripping bis cothes-iine
character Of the school yard dirt works before which
an army of over 300 900 men had been kept at bay.
Nav, not kept at bay by TIE children's dr.-wortr-
but by the consequences of ignorance, which could
not possibly have been nursed and maintained, had
the right hand of brotherhood been stretched out TO
the negroes in Richmond, asd had the President or
Commander-in.Ch ief sa d. "fell M what your War
Depar1 nent does; where the Rebel forcos are; Low
many they arc; end tell US this daily, and you shall
forever be free" Wells, Bu!ieTdold a. Co.
never ran q surer express between Buffalo
and Albany tran the underground military
express tina, would have been run between
Richmond and Washington on THE initial
alliance between the white Union men Of the North
snd the black Union men OF the South. Initial Al
liaucel Why, we have everywhere been helpless
without these Backs, or exposed 10 haPhezard
Landed at Fort Monroe, and houndered through the
main road mp 70 Hampton aud above it-where were
wei Without msps. without guides. The country
YVES q wilderness We had not a scrap of r survey
As big az tie hand, thai showed tie courses of the
wood-roads that wound through il. The
old Coast Survey chart Of the soundings of the York
and James Rivers, with the siuge turnpike 10 York
town, Williamsburg and Richmond, wss the guide
over which Generals, compass in lad, guessed
where this road led ton what that de.
bouched--where this wouid strike the Warwick
river-and if that would give firm bottom 10 artii-
lery Where are the eneUyl No one knew. 1t
vas safe to conclude that they were behind their
line Of deenses which stretched Hcross the peninsula.
Where are their defenseel No one knew, rave that
when we 90; to Yorktown We would find part OF
them. The rest it was proposed 10 but on 10. For
ward Oh, how must the Genius Of Rebellion
have ginned, from her outlook, at this ungu.ded
wandering in On unmapped wilderness Of an army OF
invasion Maps! Uscless WORKS OF the engineer
ing art when negroes, live mars, that could see,
and walk, and talk, lid point with the index
inger-crowds Of tbem-stood expectant within
reach Of our army, aud hungered and tbirged TO be
employed 70 conduct u 10 the enemy by the driest
and beet pstbs-naGps cqpoJie ef leading US, wsh
inerring certainty, hr0agh the roods H. the forrest
md reakeh pa,ts Of Ae line Of intTeaeameafS the
ReJels had MrorR up jetuecH he York and The
James Rirers-aged maps sold from plantation to
plantation through TIE Peninsula and familiar from
anceut coon-hunt.ng and still persistent night
wandering, with every road aud swamp in il, who,
turning their backs upon thofe accused cords Of
shovels aud p.cke4cs docked ut Fortress Monroe,
and walking away from them with salvation speed,
would have led our army right up to the places Of
weakness, and hating us i'll The wood aid to the
"Dis am de place, Massa, where do
army of de Lord ana OF Freedom Gun bust fru, Just
as fri garden fence. Glib EN- 90 bayonet, and
leave &c lest Wild de Lord!" | knew lUs,OOO men
in April latt who, under such guidance and such
God.speed, would have stormed tie gates Of hell.
How sef-eviient il is that this alliance with the
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