The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-11-01
Aiming the Negroes.

exercised, for several weeks past, over
the Presidents proclamation. They
have great fear the Government may use
the slaves in some way prejudieial to the
interests of their amiable and sweet tenn
pered masters. From the commence
ment Of the war these southern sympa-
thisets have manifested the most extra
ordinary anxiety lest the Government
should do something calculated to arouse
the indignation of their Southern ''kith
and kin and prevent any re-construc-
ton of the "Union as it was. The
horrors Of Slave instructions are pietur-
ed in colors peculiarly gloomy, as inev--
liable and every effort is put forth to
arouse the sympathy of the Northern
people for the rebels, and to excite their
indignation against the Administration.
The true object of their inhamatory
and lying appeals is denied, but is none
the less apparent to every thinking and
reading man.
One may consult the columns Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer or State Sentinel
for weeks and months, and nowhere will
he be able to find a paragraph heartily
denouncing the barbaric practices of the
rebels. They may cruelly treat our
wounded and prisoners they may, with
hyena-like feroeity, resurrect our dead,
to make cooking utensils and personal
aud parlor ornaments out of their bones
they may fire upon our soldiers from
under flags Of truce-and they may des-
ecrate the starry flag itself, waving it
over their heads for protection while
from under its folds they pour in
death-volleys upon our noble and gene
rous-hearted, bat betrayed, volunteers;
we say, all these things may be done
without exciting the indignation of our
Butternuts, or provoking a solitary word
of condemnation We ask our readers
to pause and think over the past. Can
they recolect single instance in which
they have heard or read a manly and
indignant rebuke of rebel outrages by
the Tory papers and speakers of the
Free States? We think they cannot
call an instance to mind If they can
find one, we are confident Barnum will
pay literally for the exclusive privilege
of exhibiting it in connection with Com
modore Mutt 1t certainly would draw
rs crowded houses, to announce that such
a specimen Of literature had been found,
and that9the Commodore would read it
on stated afternoons of each week
These reflections naturally suggest
themselves on reading in our dispatches
that seven regiments of negroes, armed
and equipped, had arrived at Whining
ton, \. G., to occupy the various reb-
eel Notifications during the sickly sea-
SON. Is any one SO ignorant as to sup
pose that the operations of these negroes
are to be confined to the sicllly season?
Not bit of it. They will be used in
all seasons; and if the experiment of
arming thei7 :, 900 mentioned as arriving
at Wilmington proves successful, we may
anticipate a General arming of the entire
male portion of the slave population.
For ourselves, we regard the experiment
as hazardous; but desperate, men are
ever willing to run risks The conspira-
tors begin to realize the hopelessness of
- their undertaking, and rather perish
amid the ruins of their endeavor, than to
acknowledge their errors and return to
their allegiance ~
But the point to which we desire the
attention Of our readers to be drawn is
the 4i4HI4a44-sA--
viii comment on this piece Of negro in
telligence Wheneyer~e can find them
mentioning the subject at all, We will
make haste to lay their comments before
the J0u4naL2S tnumcrous readers But
we doubt if much will be said by, the
Butternut organs on this delicate sub
ject They have been busy for weeks
in dcnouncing the Presidents proclama-
tion-they have never had space enough
to devote to that unconstitutional act
of his. What viii they say concerning
this wholesale arming Of negroes? 1t is
altogether unconstitutional to use
negroes to the detriment Of their South
-ern Iuasters--will our boys be consti-
tutionally" slain when they fall before
breastworks defended by these black
serfs2 What say the Tory sheets?
$500
h, The New Albany Ledger's race
between Bragg and Buell. Nashville be-
ingthe goal, never came off The Pfesi-
dent concluded that Buelis running ney.
er amounts to much and that he had bet
ter put another and gamer nag on the
track.
raa..We had the pleasure yesterday, o.
meeting a number of the officers Of the
Legion, who have just returned from In
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