The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-07-31
,BENSBURG, Pa, THURSDAY, JULY Il, 1862

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the great cities as consequence of the
competition of whites and blacks in vari-
Gus fields of labor, can read their own
| doom and the refutation of their own
! falsehoods in the ground taken by genu-
inc Democrats in the National Legislature
OH this important issue. Whether they
see it or not, whether they realize this or
not, the people realize it. The object of
this war is not abolition, but xindication
NOT abolition of slavery-but vindica-
tion Of the offended majesty of the laws
To this end we send our white men into
the field to fight in our armies. To save
them from the privations of the long,
weary march, to relieve them from the
heavy service that wearies and wastes
them in the trenches and on our fortifca-
tions, it is proposed to invoke the aid of
the thousands Of colored men who are set
shareholders themselves. When this race
is fully assured that they may render a
such service, and be rewarded for it,
there will be no further fight into the
free towns of the North and Northwest; !;
but they will gladly remain under that
flag which, while protecting them, they
themselves defend. One other lesson has
been taught within the last year, and that
is, if the most loyal of the white people
are those who are fighting for the Con-
stitution and the Union, SO the most loyal
people of the seeded States are the blacks
themselves. Shall we not use these
blacks =? Shall we not act upon the sug-
gestion ot some of our most gallant and
own brothers by accepting this ready,
eager and honest assistance? What voter
who has lost his relative or his friend by
disease in the army, will not yield to this
argument and ask that it may be carried
into effect hereafter. The fact is, gen
tlemen, this war may as well be termina-
ted to day if we do not avail ourselves of
every other means justified by our own
necessities and by the usages of civilized
nations. [ know there are some who
shrink from the idea of arming the coloreG
men. Have they forgotten that they
were armed by order of Sen. Washington
himself; that in the bloody battle of Red
Bank, near Philadelphia, it was a regi-
ment of Rhode Island negroes, under
command of Col. Ray Greene, who turned
the fortunes of the day and fought to the
last around the dead body of their COM
mander. In the second war with Eng
land, Andrew jackson enrolled the free
blacks for the defence of louisiana, and
thanked them for their bravery after the
victory was won. Has the colored race
deteriorated since the Revolution and our
second struggle for independence? They
ought to have wonderfully improved, if
philosophers speak the truth or the CEN
sus does not lie. The sympathizing gen
tlemen in the free States who are in the
habit of talking about negro equality, and
charging i.as one of the great ends of the
republican party, will hardly deny that
the infusion of the blood of the chivalry
of the south ought to have greatly i'm
proved the negro race in that quarter =
Under this influence this race should GER
tainly be improved, and, according to the
doctrines of oligarchists, more refined
For, the nearer they approach the beau
ideal of Southern gentleman, the better
they are fitted to initiate his martial
zeal. As Thaddeus Stevens once said,
the Southern sun has a wonderful effect
in bleaching the negro complexion. DO
not be afraid, then, gentlemen, OF being
called abolitionist or the advocate of negro
equality, because you demand that your
relatives and friends in the army of the
Union shall be succored, sustained and
saved from disease and death by the stout
arms of the loyal blacks, bond or free, in
the southern states. As l have said, the
only practical abolitionists are the rebels
themselves. They have set more slaves
free than thousand General Hunters
have done. Emancipation like the rebel
lion IS their work, not ours. AS the Hon.
VIM. Evarts said at Albany, in 1860, as
he was advocating Mr.. Lincoln: "Gen
tlemen of the Democratic party, you say
you have majority in the country, why
don't you unite then and defeat US at the
polls" But the rebels divided the De-
momcracy then, with the deliberate pur-
pose of dividing the country afterwards.
Nor do they desire to escape this double
responsibility. They wish to cut loose
from the free States in order to enjoy
their Institution alone, and it was to save
that institution that induced them to pre-
pare for and precipitate this war. The
only act of emancipation carried by the
Republicans is the abolition of slavery in
the District Of Columbia; and if the Re-
publicans had not done that, they would
have deserved the contempt of friend and
foe They were invoked to 1T by their
own platform and by the authority of the
publicists of the South. The power exis-
ted, and they exercised it. What has