The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-09-06

4 ~o]ieA O0 OOh0 iOi 4o3 al Pcoples 80 "udt Ied'
! son had any one to proclaim himself loyal!
Gen. Sherman. when commanding in Ken
lucky, said that nowhere could he get 10y
alists to haul him wood, corn, hay or any
/ thing. They would sell him anything they
had to sell, but would deliUer nothing; foI
they could expect no benefit from US which
the disloyal did not share, and they feared
to incur the penalties imposed by Rebels on
all avowed Unionists. Thus was offered a
premium for neutrality and disloyalty.-
And thus we found few friends, white OF
black. and it is strange that instead of do
ling no better. we. have done SO well.
Thus at Corinth, Gen. Halleck marched
forward cautiously, guarding every step,
and did not know that the enemy had for
weeks been evacuating the position until be
had marched into it. So also at Manassas
a general of high reputation, with splen-
Ididly equipped army of over $4,000 men,
was kept in position of defense for four
or five months, by line of little else than
Quaker cannon and sham intrenchments.
He thought the enemy had zoe, 900 men ar
rayed against him, when there were proba.
bly, never more than 40, 900 or SO, 600. He
might at any time have learned the condi-
ton of the foe from refugee negroes. II
stray dogs could have come into his camp
bringing information he would have receiT-
ed them, but friendly negroes were driven
off. The people have learned, at last, how
to do better, and have enabled the Govern
ment TO abandon policy so weak and IRA
tional. Congress has now laid down rule,
and the Administration, supported by the
people, will follow it.
Nor could the Government hitherto have
safely done otherwise, because of the div-
sions impending at home. The Northern
people were too timid of interference with
slaves or slavery. But now the people cry
out eff slavery stands in the way of the
Union, destroy it.'' The South is founded
upon slavery, and when that foundation is
knocked away the government built upon it
viii fall. Our generals will soon say to the
slaves of rebels, "Come to our lines: work
for the Union, and not against it, and have
freedom for yourselves. your mothers, your
wives and your children forever Never
was such a bounty offered to any people!
They know little how strong the love of lib
erty beats in the breast of every being, who
do not know that the promise of freedom
will lead the slave to endure hardships and
dangers to obtain it.
One half of the South are now in arms
or are aiding and encouraging those who are.
The other half are forced to support the
Rebel armies. But now the slaves of Reb-
els, who are the chief support of the South
ern armies, will flock to our standard. We
add millions to our numbers and deprive
| the Confederate Government of nearly half
its strength. Henceforth, the youth who
respond to their Country's call will serve as
soldiers, not as laborers. The trenches will
be dug by black men, and not by whites.
The weapon to be used by our soldiery will
be the FURNISHED muskets, and not the spade.
Already have so, 900 of our brave youth
gone 70 their graves from exposed and ia
| tiguing labor in the trenches, from Shiloh
| to the Chickahominy. But hereafter, hen
the soldier dies, he will die from wounds
received in the glorious shock of arms, and
not from fever and fatigue in the foul swamps.
He will fall beneath the folds of his Coun-
try's flag, and not toiling under the fierce
sun where the acclimated negro can labor
without injury.
This new policy should inspire new hope.
Our army surrounds the rebellious States
as with grdle of fire. From the banks
of the Potomac along the Atlantic coast
around the Keys of Florida. along the Gulf,
up the Mississippi and across the States Of
Tennessee and Kentucky, to the banks of
the Potomac, are arIayed line of Union
armies. From any point within the Con-
federate lines it is not further than across
the State of Kansas, to one of our armies.
At the head of each army will proclama
ton issue to the slaves of Rebels, "Come
to us and receive your freedom The life
blood of the South will be drawn in every
vein. Domestic instructions will proba-
bly, and almost certainly follow. They are
not recognized form of warfare. But not
on US will rest the responsibility for the
horrors resulting from them. Our Govern
ment will not foment such instructions or
arm the negroes for them. If the South
want quiet they can lay down their arms,
and, returning TO their allegiance, receive
that protection which now they defantly
reject. When these instructions break out
in every county ID the South; the soldiers
will say to their generals: "Our homes are
in danger; our wives and children are
threatened; all we have is In peril, and we
must go to defend them" And they wiH
go. Then will the South be compelled to
fight their slaves. And with uprising
among the slaves, and with diminishing ar
mics before them, ELEVEN HUNDRED
THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS will sweep
the South from the Potomac to the Gulf of
Mexico.
heard Border State men in both houses
of Congress assert that it would be useless
to offer liberty to slaves-not because they
did not want liberty, but because they never
would hear of it. Not hear of il {? The
news would flash over the South, from field
to field, like message upon electric wires ]
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