Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-08-07
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confiscnt,on and emancipation and arm
ing the negroes have doue all the hsr"'
they can do IN ma>sing the Southern
people IN de ermined resistance 10 the
power Of the Government, and exciting
them to state of desperation which
add. immensely TO the moral strength o
their armies. We design, therefore, to
otf.r,o further present resistance t.
them. The confisc atom law IS open TO
future amendment; and since abolition
ism ha. proposed to speedily end the
war by M ans OF an act OF emancipation
and Authority t, arm the negroes, anu
since it ha, An act of emancipation, and
the administration are at liberty TO arm
al. the negroes they can lay their hands
upon, we propose that nobody shall
stand in the way OF the negro expe''
mcnt. Go ahead with it. Let vs. see
wat will become of it, All sober and
sensible people Of course know what VIII
come OF IT, but there aye great many
people who ouyht,o be sober and sensl
be. but are not, who do not know what
Will come of IT, and who will not believe
in its future until they see It. 10 bc
sure, the experiment, ~ d'sgracetul TO
twenty odd mlilons of white people, but
these twenty odd millions Of white peo'
pie have been di-graced Def re the abo-
htion,sD, and have not quite comprc-
hrnded il. II they shall comprehend 1t
nov, the many millions OF dollars the
experiment will cos, will be protilably
expended. Almost any expenditure
would be cheap which wonld open ev-
er,bod,'s eyes to the q iackery OF abo-
llion,sIn.
Go ahead with emancipation.
q, ahead with ar,nIng the hegrocs.-
Chicugo Times.
The conclusion thus arrived at by oul
able contemporary seems to be ve'y
proper one. 1t has become impossible
to make Republicans and Abolltionis,t
believe but what the safety of the coun
try and its success in this war depends
upon raising nigger brlgades, and send
ing them into the fiaId. They cannot sec
how twenty millions Of white people
can overcome eight or ten millions o.
the same blood without the aid OF runa.
way niggers. They take pleasure in
thus degrading themselves let them
Try it tley can't see that this same MIG.
ger agitation IN The Mouth and iu Con
grcss has ccmentcd the South until the
Union men arc almost extinct; let them
90 on until they do see it. Go on and
raise Your long hecled trgades, gentle.
men, and see what it all amounts TO-
Nothing more Illuminating could take
place in the condNct OF the war, but i,
seems tn there - no other course tha,
meets tic approval Of the republican.
abolition mud. Rally your mgge,
trgadcs, and watch for the result.
Thus far it is not Known that the rebels
have armed their negroes. They have
al least five hunllcd thousand OF them
capable OF bearing arms. We have not
more than one twentieth OF that mum.
Der. If we arm them here, will not the
same thing be done in the South Mig.
gers will fight Just as well before the
bayonets of rebel soldiers as before
those OF the Federas. What then do w.
gam We lose immeasureably. But
aboltonists will have it so. There il
no law to prevent it ct them satisfy
them elves though the experiment be a
costly one. Go ahead with your Union
saving Niger policy, and see where it
will end That's all.