The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-08-27

risgivings as TO the future economical
effects upon ourselves of an universal
emancipation, any suspicious of the
ineficiency of the negro as warlike
element, have at once been charged to
feelings of completely with the insur-
gents. Even to question the propriety
of extending general invitation to
the escaped and escaping negroes Of
the South to settle among us, and be-
come Independent laborers, and free
and enlightened citizens, has been ta-
ken as conclusive evidence of want
of attachment to those great princi-
pies of human liberty, which, accord
ing to high authority, are involved in
the contest in which we are engaged.
Of course, to attempt to convince gen
tlemen, who have party interest in
nst being convinced, is out of the guess
ton. They have said and will say
their say to the end of the chapter;
and we shall have to be content to be
called the 'white slaves of the North"
to be told that we naturally take the
part of the oppressor against the op-
pressed, admire the strong hand that
keeps the struggling victim down in the
dust, mourn over the trials and aiflic-
tions of the lords of the plantation,
and that we are "the real and genuine
mud>silis of our society, whose degra-
ded natures and servile life may we'll
make every loyal free nan blush for
shame. "
The rash and hot-headed fools, how
ever, who make these charges and
write this sort of balderdash have no
thing to do with the actual working out
of the problems which are now being
solved upon this continent. The noise
that they seem to themselves to create
is simply the whistling of the wind in
the hollow where brains might, had ma
ture boen kind to them, have inhabi>
ted. The problems will work them>
selves--are working themselves--with-
out their assistance. All the great op-
erations of nature and of society go on
constantly under the noses of fools;
and fools not only never see them, but
take to themselves great credit for not
making the discovery.
Let it be remembered now, and in
all the future,-that Democrats-the
Democratic party-haye not stood in
the way of any use to which the Ad-
ministration and its party desired to
put the negro. Democrats have been
in the minority. The Administration
and its party have had everything their
own way. If there has been con-
fict as to the particular use to which
the negro should be put-whether as
insurrectionist, soldier, laborer or pen>
sioner-it has been in the Administers
ton party. When the time for crimi>
nation and recriminatlon arrives .-and
it is coming-let the Republicans and
Abolitionists settle the matter among
themselves. Wendell Phillips and
LLOYD Garrison affirm that if the Pres
ident had only adopted their plan, the
work, before this time, would have
been accomplished. Beccher and Gree
ley are equally well convinced in res
spect to theirs. Let it be so. The
issue is one in which Democrats have
neither part nor interest; and all we
hope is that events will so shape them
selves that they never will have.
We have never believed that the
negro could be put to any good use in
this war, whether as an insurrectionist,
soldier or a laborer; and events are
daily transpiring oshow that our opin-
ions are correct. The soldier expert
ment has been tried at Port Royal un-
der the most favorable circumstances,
and by those who were most deeply in
terested inits success, and has failed
utterly, signally, ridiculously failed.
Nothing could be more comic than the
thing in its external manifestations
nothing more melancholy, when viewed
in the light of the infatuation of those
by whom it is attempted. The labor
er experiment has been equally unfor.
tunate. 1t is certainly a novelty in
warfare-and rather an expensive nov.
elty-to employ one army to fight and
another to dig the bitches and throw
up the breastworks. To subsist dou.
Bile farce in this way-to say nothing
of wages--is rather costly than 9th.
erwise; and nobody but man far gone
in philanthropy would ever have dis
covered this to be an economical mode
of carrying on a war.
But this is not the worst of it. TIL,
negro is not inclined to labor, and re
quires persuasiyes. An intelligent
correspondent of, we believe, one o
our city cotemporaries stated, not long
since, that, according to the best esti
mate he could make. the labor of twely,