The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-07-16

rati0n--f0ur hundred dollars per day, IN VIZ
olation of law, is being paid for this purpose.
The government Is hiring in the District
several hundred negroes, some as teamsters.
and some for other purposes, TO the exclusion
Of white laborers, thousands of whom, to-
gether with their wives and children, in our
large cities, are suffering for the want OF en-
ployment. speak adyisedly when | say
that the Republican party are already pay
ing, Of tax gathered money, in this District
alone, over three hundred thousand dollars
per annum to buy, elothe, feed, and exalt The
African race. Thus for the negro you can
expend more in single year in the District
of Columbia than you appropriate for the
government and protection OF all the people
in all the organized territories Of the United
States. The negro is made superior, in your
legislation. TO the pioneer white men that
settle the great West, and. amid hardships
and dangers, lay the foundations Of new
commonwealths; the hardest and noblest
men of our common country.
So the people are taxed yearly more for
the benefit of the black race, in this District
alone, than il costs to maintain the burdens
Of State governments in either Iowa, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Delaware or Maryland.
But it is not in this District alone that
you require the people to pay tribute 70 the
idol OF your affections. Wherever you find
our army, with one o. two honorable excep-
tons, you will find that hundreds Of rations
are being issued daily to unemployed ne
groes who rendezvous iE and about ths
camps; wherever the army is they are being
employed in various capacities at good wa
ges, and to the utter exclusion OF white labor,
that now anguishes in irksome idleness
throughout the country. | state. therefore,
and think ruthfully. that the government
is already paying 500, 900 per day for the
support and employment Of negroes-paying
it. too, out Of money raised through the toll,
depriyations and taxation OF our own kith
and kin.
In my district, Mr.. Chairman, my constitu-
spis 81 s. Sagf s6lldHPspSr their families and main
tain the honor and integrity Of our govern
ment. Shall money thus raised, and tor such
a purpose, be diverted to the entertainment
Of the Africans
One might suppose that your ardor in the
care and protection Of the negro would stop
and cool here; but no. you 60 still further.
Having made him your equal as civilian,
YOU now seek to place him on the same level
with American sailors and soldiers. First
came the order Of the Secretary Of the Navy,
Mr.. Weiles, as follows:
Navy Department, April 30, 1862.
SIN The approach 5f the hot and sicky season up
on the Southern coast of the United States renders y
imperative that every prccautOn should be used by the
officers commanding vessels 10 continue the excellent
s,nitary condition 81 their crews Tie large number
Of persons known as conirabands" docking 70 the
protection of the United States flag affords an cPporiu.
nity 10 provide in every department Of ship especial
i, for boats crews aceImatel labor. The Hag-cieers
are reouiled 10 obtain the services Of these persons oI
The country BY cnlisng them freely IN the navy, WITH
their consent rating them as boys, at eight, nine o.
len dollars per month, ani one ration. Let monthly
return be made II the number OF this class oi persons
employed on each vessel under your command Ian
'''F's1'' - GIDEON wELLEs.
Having made this progressive step in our
nayy, (as my colleague from the Bureau dis
trict lMr. Loyeioy1 would call il, il remains
1 ~ be emulated IN our army. Not long doe:
il await an lmitatOr General ID. VI. Hun
Ter, commanding in the military department
of South Carolina. Georgia and Florida, is
sues ali order 10 enrol companies, regiments
and brigades Of negroes in The military ser
vice Of the United States.
Thus. in less than two years after the ac'
cession to power Of The Repubicon party, III
negro is made, al Car as possible, fhe equal 2
1 fhs piite man as civilian, sailor aud a sol
der. Nay. more than this, the Constitution
/ is violated that white men may be bereft o
guaranteed rights. White men are strippe,
OF the arnur OF American citizenship 10 or
der that the negro may be clothed therein
i All this has been done against the earncs
protest of al conservative men. And pro
! positions and amendments 10 bills, appropri
! ating money for the suppression Of the rebel
/; lion, which provided that no moneys shoul,
. be diverted either TO the feeling, the support
! or the enlistment OF negroes, have been IN
. yatiably voted down by the Republican part
i in this HOpsc.
! Worse than this even General Hunter, d
A.4 4 a ssa..l