Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-08-01
A Shareholders Wow of the war.
nrresnnndence of the Cincinr,ii Gnzntte

Louisville, KY July Is, 1862
Well, Messrs. Editors what do you think of
the situation" aou2 Can't you call a little
louder on "our Government for more vigorous
measures" / think, SiIs unless things change,
we might as well give il up Weare by the reb-
el cohscription ouinumbered, outgeneraled at all
points, losing our gallant army every day by
companies, regiments and brigades. Nowhere
can we "turn Il wheel" And now, at this late
hour, our immaculate Government is frittering
away what little time il can spare from the nig-
ger question in blubbering about volunteers.-
Why in the d. don't our authorities act like
men who had an object in view which they were
determined to accomplish, as the traitors do?-
Why have they not sense enough to see that SO
long the "niggern is left undisturbed, this re-
bellon cannot be put dQWnY
Wetalk aboutou eighteen or twenty millions
to their six or seven millions. We should count
them twelve millions, for their four millions OF
slaves are as useful to them in the prosecution
of this war an equal number of our white pop
ulation, as producers; and twelve millions at
home can "thrash' twenty millions of invaders
always. Again we hear great deal said of en-
ploying slaves or blacks in camp duty, intrench-
ments, dc, but not in battle. Oh no, that would
be horrible! that is all shere nonsense; that
would give us two armies to feed and clothe in
stead of one. No, sirs. Make them work and
fight, too like the devil.
Washington did it; jackson did it; and what
they did we might afford to do / think, with
safety. Moreover, every nation under heaven,
who have them, thus use them; and we think
there is no evidence on record of their being less
subordinate or dutiful than their white fellow
soldiers Is there any such record? No. sirs.--
Send 25,000 or $4,000 of your free blacks into
our suffering army, 10 increase dd Gbitun as we
go south, and, by all means leaving our ene-
mics in the rear incapable of rising to burn and
murder our Struggling soldiers and citizens
This, Sirs, is a war; the magnitude of which
our rulers seem not yet TO have comprehended
or realizcds and we fear they will not till too
late to save u.s. am Southern man, slave
owner; but if necessary to the salvation of the
Nation, take my negroes arm them (nay,
would do it myself and fight with thern,) and
SOW the land of traitors in salt. They have now
100000 or 100000 men in the field; we a little
over half that number; and they are capturing
our men (and we are losing through sickness,
faster than we are recruiting by volunteering.
Srs, if things go on in this way the Nation il
lost without remedy.
We should by draft, lauuch 100000 men o
all coors into the field by the first of September
Move them south, fixing every thing as they 90
beyond the possibility of rising in the rear
| By frost we would be in the cotton "yellov
Jack" States; by spring through and over them
and the war wound up-nggerdom and all. l
the war is ever closed successfully, this, opino
| - thS ohiJ piths All VI WHICH Is Respectfully
| by yours, truly a.
| Sensible and sound talk, every word Of it,
Would that the powers that be, were as fully
alive to the imminent peril and necessity of tn
nation as the people are. In the name of hu
manity; in behalf of our suffering county; in th
sacred memory of our hundred thousand starI
and dead martyrs to liberty; in answer to heart
stricken walls from the hearth-stones of the fv
hundred thousand bereaved; for God and tn
right, hurl on the wicked traitorous, rebel, hell
deserving minions the full terrible and Just ven
geance of the Nation If need be, to save th
Union they have lifted their parracidal hand
against, sweep them utterly from the face of tn
earth, and forever bury their names in ignomin
aud disgrace. They have not one vestige {
right property or life which the Nation, or 10y
al citizens are bound to respect. They naugu
ated the war on an unfounded, false, and unhol
cause, Give them then, War; devastating an
exterminating War Free their slaves, confiscat
their property, declare them traitors, all, every
thngl only SAVE THE GLORIOUS UNIOl
BEQUEATHED US BY OUR FATHERS
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