Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-07-16
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leEaeg from Beaufort South U&roll"
ns, May l4sh, to the Detroit Frss Press,
presents the result Of General Hunters
forced negro military emancipation Ia
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/ ssines my last, matters both Of a grave
and somisal natare hsss taken place in
oar division. AbolisiOnism j. running
rampant. In the 6rst place, our brigade
wss electrified with al order thai there
Was 70 be two regiments Of negroes rails
ed and armed, snd our regiment vas hon-
Grad with an order 10 furnish non com
niaaioasd officers who wers willing TO
taxa she posision Of officers IN one of the
regiments To tha everlasting honar Of
the regiment tAeRs waa bat one m&a found
who would allow himself to be used for
any saoh paHPess.f Afses trsegaising for
| two weaks sAad sniy gseaing twenty or
saisty aagzosss il waa foaad thai it xoula
not work, General Hunter then comes
out with a proclamation declaring every
negro in the States of South Cazolina,
Georgia and Florida, free, and entitled TO
ell she rights Of frss man.-~wisb one
stroke Of his pen accomplished that which
the Government itself has no right to do
andar shs Constitution. The naxs msrn-
ing after freeing the negro, cane one
from the same source, ordering every able
bodied negro within the lines of our brig
ade 10 be collected together and sent un-
der guard to Hilton Head, to form the
grand negro army. It vas . military oE-
der, and had to be obeyed, and such
scenes US were enacted in eur midss are
disgrace to any eiviiiEsd people, and out
strip any real or fancisd description Of
the Regro EEadeFs in "Unols Tom"
What has probably taken place in indi-
viduAl instances under thsir former mas
ter now took place by Wholesale under the
prsaeus sne, sithough the negro was free,
be Ii EsAeEahe1ed. AS the negro woaid
not So willingly, patrols were asns out
through the town, and negroes were
caught wherever ahey Soald be found, and
taken to place Of rendezvous, in many
instances being driven at the point of the
hayoRqt, believing Justify, the teaEs
streaming down their cheeks. In other
cases they were found secreted under their
beds, and had to b. taken oas and forced
from the arms Of their screaming com
panions. The same scenes were enacted
on almost every plantation on the island.
Some three or four hundred being collect
ed, thay waEe driven On transport al the
wharf to leave theiE homes, many Of them
no doubt, forever, the women in many
e"s0s praying God to send them hack tn
their cid masters, as they we're much less
cruel than their present ones. 1t the ne
gro in this country has greater horror
for one thing than another, it is gun
You ask them if they do not want to help
to put down their old masters. they tell
you 'sfor God, lnassa, we can't shoot
gun make we faint; can't stand fore
white aan, % ,haws he Ahoea - 'fsge We
see hin We brake for the swamp, sure,
massa," No pen or sketch can give you
true idea Of the scenes we saw, aud |
will not try. The artists Of the New YORK
illustrated papers were on the ground tax
ing sketches, and also the reporters of the
press generally, and every word that they
may say will be true, for the scene cannot
be painted up TO the reality.
Tel. the friends Of the Constitution In
Michigan, if this war is to be turned into
a crusade against any part Of our country
and if We Ars asked or expected to stand
shoulder 10 shoulder on Sn equality with
the negro, as o soldier, the regiment here
may b recond out for every oEhaex frnHn
tho higsnsss 70 the lowest, wall throw up
their commissions and retire from the
service. There is such storm bpewing
here, that think the whole thing will be
abandoned, and the negro be again uHed
~ be has besn-nat to do tha dEudgery
in the army, unloading vessels, making
breast works, In short, using him any
where to save white mans muscle, en-
eept wish gun. Thirty thousand OF shem
would be whipped BY Ave hundred white