East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-08-12
The President Refuses Negro Reg
iments.
Special Dispatch to the New York Herald.
Washington. Aug. 4.


the President to swerve from his estab
lishel policy are unavailing. He will
neither be pursuaded by promises nor
intimidated by threats. To-day he was
called upon by two United States Sen
ators, and rather premptorlly requested
to accept the services of two negro reg
iments. They were fatty and unequiv.
ocaly rejected. The President did not
appreciate the necessity for employing
the negroes to fight the battles of the
country, and take the positions which
the white men of the nation, the voters,
and sons of patriotic sires, should be
proud to occupy; there were employ
ments in which the negroes of rebel
masters might we'll be engaged, but he
was not willing to place them upon an
equality with onr volunteers, who had
left home and family and lucrative oc'
cupations to defend the Union and the
constitution, while there were volun.
teers or militia enough in the loyal
States to maintain the government
without resort to this expedieDt. If
the loyal people were not satisfied with
the policy he h as adopted, he was will.
ing to leave the administration to other
hands. One of the Senators who had
preferred this request was impuden:
enough to tell the President he wished
to God he would resign.
This interview between tn ese apos-
ties OF negro elevation and the Presi
dent has presented direct issue. The
whole country will rejoice that Mr.
Lincoln has expressed his determination
not to degrade the gallant volunteers,
who are now bleeding and dying for the
Union and constitution, by acceding to
the demands of the few fierco fanatics
who would pervert tho war for the
Union into simply abolition raid.
The decision of the President in this
case settles the question as to the ad.
mission of negro brigodes. One of the
Senators alluded to was from Kansas
and thus the 7rt bmes story about jim.
Lanes negro regiments is at once
proved bursted bubble; ditto Gree.
ley's red breeched negro brigade, and
the negro regiments that have been re.
ported to bo organizing in this district.
Since the adjournment of Congress
the Jacksonian qualities Of Abraham
Lincoln have been more than ever ap
parent ] hat he is determined to pros.
ccute the war vigorously and to sue
cessful result none can now doubt. He
waited only to be clothed with power,
and provided with the means. The
changes since made in tie administra-
tion of the War Depal tment, the call for
three hundred thousand additional vol
unteers, and the call to-day, besides for
three hundred thousand militia. are
evidences of the spirit with which he
has gone to work to crush the rebel
lion as soon as he was relieved of the
embarrassments of Senate composed
in great part Of men who were only con
ditionally for the Union. There weie
in the last session of Congress three
classes of Union men-one for the IN
ion, if slavery should be preserved; an
other for the Union only on condition
slavery should be abolished; and the
third for the Union without any condi.
tions whatever-for the Union first, last
and all the time, without reference to
the slavery question or any other side
issue. The President belongs to this
last enumeration of Union men. He
intends to maintain the government and
preserve the Union, come wha. may
Ii slavery should go down in the strug.
gle, let it GO; but the Union must and
shall be preserved.
Special Dispatch to the n Y. Tribune.
A deputation of Western gentlemen
waited upon the President this morn.
ing TO offer two colored regiments from
the State of Indiana. Two members of
Congress were of the party. The Pres.
ident received them courteously, but
stated to them that he was not pi epared
to go the length of enlsting negroes as
soldiers. Ho would employ all colored
men offered as laborers, but would not
promise to make soldiers of them.
The deputation came away satisfi ed
that it is the determination of the gov.
ernment not to arm negroes unless some
new and more pressing emergency
arises. The President argued that the
nation could not afford to lose Ken.
tucky at this crisis, and gave it as his
opinion that to arm the negroes would
turn $4,000 bayonets from the loyal
border States against us tha. were for
US.
Upon the policy of using negroes as
laborers the contiscation of rebel prop.
erty, and the feeding the national troops
upon the graneries of the enemy, the
President said there was no division ofl
sentiment He did not explain. howev
er, why it is that the army OF the Poto.
mac and the army of Virgini carry out
this policy so differently. The Prcsi
dent promised that the war should be
prorecuted with all the vigor he could
but he could not promise to
arm slaves or to attempt slave insur-
rections to the rebel States. The 10
cent enactrnents Of Congress on cman.
cipation and confscation he expects to
carry out.
Correspondence Of the N. Y. Evening Post.
Senators Haylan, of Iowa, Pomeroy.
Of Kansas, and other gentlemen waited