The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-08-08
A Slavehoider,s View Of the War.

Correspondence Of the Cincinnati
Gazette.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July Is, 1862
Well, Messrs. Editors, what do
YOU think OF the situation" no,c2-
Can't you call little louder on our
Government" for moro "vigorous
measures2" | think, Sirs, unles.
things change, we might as wei
give it up. We are by the rebe
conscription outnumbered, outgener
sled at all points, losing our gallan,
army every day by companies, regi
ments and 5rigades. Nowhere can
we turn wheel" And now a,
this late hour, our immaculate Gov,
ernment is frttering away what it,
tie time it can spare from the nigger
question in blubering about volun.
reers. Why in the d don't our
authorities act like men who had on
object in view which they we're de.
termined to accomplish, az the trait.
ors do? Why havo they not sense
enough to see that 90 long az the
"nigger' is left undisturbed, this
rebellion caunot be put down2
We talk about our eighteen OF
twenty millions to their six or seven
millions. We should connt them
twelve millions, for their four mil :
lions of slaves are as useful TO them
in the prosecution OF this war "a an
equal number Of our white popula
tion, as producers; and twelve mil.
lions at home can "thrash" twenty
millions ofinvaders always. Again
wa hear a great deal said Of employ
ing slaves or blacks in camp dnty
intrenchments, &C., bnt not in bat
tie. Oh no. that would be horrible
That is all sheer nonsense; tha
would give us two armies to feed
and clothe instead Of one. No, sirs
Make them work and fight, to, like
the devil.
Washington did it; Jackson did II;
and what they did we might afford
to do, | think, with SAFETY. Moreo
yer, every nation under Heaven,
who have them, thus use them; and
we think there is no evidence on re.
cord of their being less subordinate
or du,iful than their white fellow
soldiers. Is there any such record
No, sirs. Send $4,000 or 80 900 o
your free blacks into onr suffering
army, to increase al ti6ituna as We
go South, and, by all means, leav
ing our enemies in the rear inca.
psble Of raising to burn and murder
our struggling soldiers and citizens.
This, Sirs, is a war. the msgni
tude OF which our rulers seem mol
yet to have comprehended or realiz
ed, and we fear they will not ill to
late to save us. am a Southern
nan, a slave owner; but il necessa.
ry TO the salvation OF the Nation
take my negroes; arm them (nay,
would do it myself and fight with
them. and SOW the lands OF traitors
in salt. They have now 100000 OF
800 900 men in the field, we q little
over half that number; and they are
capturing our men (snd we are los
log through Sickness faster than we
are "recruiting by volunteering, ~
Sirs, II things go on in this way, the
Nation is lost without remedy.
We should by draft, launch 900,
900 men Of all colors into the fielc
by the first OF September. Move
them South, fixing every thing at
they go, beyond the possibility Of I
rising in the rear. BY frost w
would be in the cotton "yellow Jack
states; by spring through and oveI
them, and the war wound up-nig.
gerdom and all. II the war is evel
closed successfully, this, | opine, il
the only plan. ALI Of which 10 re-
spsctfully, by yours, truly,