New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-13
TIE SLAVE CATCHING BUSINESS LIVELY
Secession Jailers and Union Prisoners
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lv med TO our observation. Every day fugives
arrive from fs- and near, aud seek admission within
our lines Nest of these are, Of course, rejected. We
have neither food nor employment for them. With
out exception, they all bear testimony to one fact
that The slayes very short allowance Of food
and that they are overworkej aad Otherwise cruelty
treated. Many of them bear the marks of brutal
whippings, their backs and limbs laceia'ed and
Scared, or siin bleeding. Some OF them have heavy
mon collars with long prongs Ontheir Decks. Others
have handouts on. One old man came in, few
Sabbahs since, with heavy iron weight and chain
Oh bis leg. 4 boy Of about 10 arrived "a few even
ings since, with an iron chain connecting his meek
4nd ankle. This morning got blacksmith to strike
off two iron letters from the ankles CT slave who
had Just come in. The ugly shackles now hang up
over my writing desk, with the iron handcuiIs which
be had succeeded in getting of from his wrists.
Few, however, OF these runAways are so fortunate
o. to to be retained within lines. Iu fact, very
few OF them reach US at all. Policemen, appointed
Or confirmed in previous appointments, BY The United
States Military authorities, swarm in the Streets and
bounce upon the black victim before he has an op-
rortunity TO tell his tale of distress Our daily papers
abound with advertisements Of rewards offered for
size apprehension of runaways, and the police drive
g. very houTihing business slave cachers. ls not
this shame that the agents and employees of the
Great Republic should be engaged constantly in the
business of slave-houuds But this is not all.
The tails are filed with runaway negroes, whose
only crime is that they have tired 10 get their free
dom by coming to tie Yankees. Keepers Of these
;ais are some OF them, bitter SecessOnsts as those
Union soldiers are made 10 feel, who uufOrtu
nate ss to q, committed to pris The prison.
Keepers as when our captive Union soldiers were
months ago incarcerated here, retain their Office by
permission of the Union Authorities. One of the
most prominent jaers advertises in one Of our daes
the only Union paper here-that he will whip
slaves as heretofore in accordance with the law Of
Louisiana, and by permission OF proper suthOrities
So il any master or mistress wants slave whipped,
yonder is the licensed Gogger, and it is only neces
ssry to take the slave there send him her with
note specifying the number of lashes to be laid on
No questions are asked, bnt the public whpper ap-
plies the slave-whp TO the naked body, and all ac-
eoIding TO law
said we We're obliged TO reject the negroes that
come here It often seems cruel and costs bitter
pangs to turn over TO the merces Of the New-Orleans
notice and the brutal iailer, the scared worn,
hungry fugitive, who has made his way for Of
miles to our quarters in hope of liberty, and who ii
able and anxious to do maniu service ia fighting for
the Union Usually within few hours after the
arrival of the black Union fugitive, comes the white
Rebel oyerseer or master He pays the official,
badge wearing 1scari0t who performs the blood
hounds task and the slave is hurried back to the
tender merces ofthe plantation sayepen the stocks,
she savage hide the pistol Of the traitor master,
where no lar now prevails or Is executed but the
Rebel owners despOtic and irresponsible viii The
old man who came here some three or four Sundays
since with the iron weight and chain attached 10 he
leg, ID reported on pretty good authority to have
been killed by LIS maser soon after having been
turned out Of our quarters.
Does the United States want recruits 1t can
have them by the thousand in this city at twenty
four hours notice. Let the word 20 out that every
sble-boaied of any color will be received as a
soldier, and verify believe regiment of excellent
recruits could be raised in three hours. Tough,
strong, acchmated, accustomed 10 scanty clothing
and fare they would also possess stimulus to exor-
ton which the white soldier does not. i mean the
hope of liberty which in all ages has been the chief
inspiration of the brave in their most heroic strng-
ges Add to this still another motive, which the
white soldier has not the knowledge that if defeated
and captured horrible scourging and barbaritee will
be inflicted ON them by their masters. believe that
under such impulses the black soldiers, half OF whom
have white blood in them, woud fight desperately.
Many of them Of gigantic size Many years Of
oppression and wrong IaDkle in their memoreSand
yoad them on. Fry them.
Louisiana would furnish ten regiments of hardy
IN L. Hufic oil
for them. Why. the Rebels had regiments Of
blacks partly drilled in this city, One regiment was
armed, and pixies Of three or four different kinds
and rough "negro swords were being maDuiac
tured for the others. There need be no decree of
emancipation Of the slaves OF Rebels; but let the
commanding general invite all able-boded men, OF
whatever complexion, to enlist with promise Of
protection, Iay, food, and clothing. From the in
Vulnerable applicants there could be selected a body
OF soldiers that could lie made by drilling, superior,
physically, to any corps in the world. Asa Union
STAKEHOLDER who stands all alone nearly, in this city,
remarked 10 Il Lieutenant mere last evening: They
aay the slaves won't fight; but you give them
chance and you'll find they'll make splendid eolders.
Nothing would so Iaralyze the Rebellion as the
sudde.l withdrawal Of the able-bodied slaves from
every Rebel plantation and family. Everywhere
within a score Of miles Of any body Of our troops
there would be this stampede. Everywhere terror
and in security would paralyze the operations Of
SoutbeI men and Southern armies. They would
REQUIRE at least one able-boded white to watch
every two or three blacks The labor that feeds,
clothes, supports and makes comfortable the South
ern armies would be withdrawn from them, and be
given to our Union arrnes Let us have these stout,
enduring soos of toll, TO dig, wash, carry serve and
fight. Why not?