Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-08-21
WgITE MEN WANTED.

rbo Springfield Republican, which is well
vo as an ouI-and-Gut anti,slavery Re-
1 ,,rc,o paper, has had Of late many sen.
4 \. and forcible articles in regard to the
1 .doct the war, Here is some plain talk
an it. to which we say Amen, After al.
lOc to the great stubborn facts that we,
lie men of the Union, have nationality,
[OIMeal freedom, PERSONAL and national
mar. and the interests of republican insti-
lions at stake, facts which the people are
E,naely slos to comprehend, the. Repub-
IAN says;
ayet there are white men among us who
| h their hands and whine, and talk about
4 natural allies and complain that they
moi pernitted to fire into the enemy's
1,,zine'-lnen who seem to think that.
nebow, emancipation and the negro will
1 their work for them, when they have got
do bigger fighting than they have done
! 10 secure emancipation at all. 1t is all
Spsense to lie back and say that a differ
poIcy is wanted, and that we shall have
success until different policy shall be
kugurated The policy that gives US
men enough to whip the enemy, is the
lev that will insure success in the task we
We undertaken. The policy that took
Nv Orleans was ships, guns, white men
4 pluck. The policy that cleaned out
kDaessee, Kentacky and Missouri was
fny of white men and gunpowder to
kth. The negroes of the South our
iural allies'-are unorganized, unarmed,
orsnt and inaccessible. We cannot reach
benb part of them by a proclamation
hat is the use, then, in talking about ut
4 Nv impractcable schemes when the thing
1 be done is as plain as pike-staff ?
EThe want of the hour, we repeat, is three
Inbred thousand white men. We have not
! slightest objection to black men, if we
! get them. We have not the slightest
i ecton to the organization and arming of
Y slaves of re bells everywhere, provided
M can be got at. Indeed it would be
vteedingly pleasant to have all the fighting
BE- by these persons. Fighting is not the
es delightful business in the world, and
amount of it that could be conveniently
fned off upon the negroes would be re-
\ Unluckily, however, very little of it
\ be assumed by them. We should be
2ged to employ one army TO free them,
ie holding their masters at different
: bits with another.
4 are among those who, from the first,
BE believed and prophesied that the war
sealed the fate OF slavery, but we have
Der believed that the slaves would he p us
hny fight with the rebels. They have not
Rn shown pluck enough to get up an
Erection. We have lived among them
RoWos and on plantations. and know them
fke book" Those who live in towns
u villages are bright and shrewd, and
De of them are doubtless brave but at
N fve-sixths Of all the outhern negroes
on plantations, AMI while there are
eng them few who know something,
I would act Extensively against their mas
! II they had chance, the great mass are
krant, good .natured, INDECENT and stupid,
" would just as soon tn nix of cutting their
I throats as those OF their masters. Plan
bns of from 100 to 500 negroes are man
y by two or three white men, who find no
(culty in keeping them in subsection.
b. are brought up to fear gunpowder,
can be driven by hundreds before sin
musket. What education and drill
bid do for these men we cannot tell
lev would do much without doubt, but we
mot wait for this. We are called upon
act in an emergency. The hour-this
lr-has its pressing wants, and this want
ben, and the only available men We have
white men. 1t is our business to save
Relves country, and to save it by fight
I with our own hands. If we fail, it will
kbe because the negroes did not help us,
because We were too mean and too cow
y to hell ourselves.