The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-07-24

ore, had better follow the course OF our
friends across toe way, for / believe, as
God is my judge, that such will be the
Insviiabls result Of their policy. pl.i g
Mr.. Mallory. Let me say one word.
Mr.. StsysDs. We differ 10 opinion as
TO the mode. That 10 all ~
Mr.. Mallory. I believe that the slaves
Of SOltherB rebels should be used By our
Amy as it advances. / believe that they
should be taken and uscd for all uep,Gl
services OF the camp. aud to work upon
fortifcatioDs and evsfy thing of tha, sort.
| consider their uses for sEch purposes
Legitimate; but l do object to armin0
them for two reaschB, which | Want 10
state to- the gentleman for the purpose ol
putting myself fight. The Grst Of these
reasons is, that when armed, they will be
turned loose against those who have beet
heretofore their masters and that Wher
they get the ascends6cy their pract;c,
will be the indiserimate slaughter of msr
women and children wherever they 20.
The second objection that have |;
this: That you can not Tor your life make
Of the slaves of the Southern States an ar
my whose services 10 the field will pay
for the expenses Of organizing them. -
One shot Of d cannon would dispsrse 30,.
600 Of them,
Mr.. Stevens. Then they will do no
injury 10 the rebels who fgh, them
Why, then. object to them as savage
and barbarous race; ifone gun will dis.
perse an army Of lheih. .,....
Mr.. Mallory. have just stated the
reason,
Mr.. Stevens. I know. Mr Speaker,
that the gentleman from Kentucky is sin.
cerr. He and | only differ about the
mode. That is all. I say that am in
favor of employing slaves against their
former masters. | am glad that the gen.
t!eman from Kentucky IS in favor of EN-
plOyiug them for some purpose. For
what purpose? Why. for some menia
purpose. | suppose they would be KEEP
employed until after peace is made. anC
then.scnt back to their masters unhurt
under the fugitive slave law. In lh,
meantime J sm for putting them 10 th'
front rank OF this battle. | would raist
a hundred thousand Of them to morrow
and have them drilled. History tells Vi
that they make the best and most dOcil,
soldiers in ,hsworld. They sts not bar
barous 10 nathts, They are tSopls q
we'll calculated to be humanifed as AM
d:het. From the lims of Homer 10 th'
present, the ''blameless sons Of Ethiopia
hds been proserb. Il is false to sa
that they are not capable Of being mad
3 good soldiers and humane soldiers. /
st. Domingo the slaves. while fighting fc
' liberty, SAVED their white mas'ers, an
Q sent of many, who escaped. Where the
! could no: help it, they killed their ma
!. ters. as they had right TO do. Sir,
D wotld put these slaves in the front Of Il
battle. i would take away all those wi
help the rebels TO raise grain throfgh ii
. heats Of summer, and then the rebe
would starve. would put these slave
whore they could fight their former mas
4 ters. II men are to be shot in this wa
lee it Tot be our friends, and relatives :
!. Let Il be the slaves Of those traitors VIII
!. have caused this war. ! would to Go
that hundred thousand Of them hu
been at Richmond to receive the frat fiI
# Of their villainous masters. Instead
3 that policy which this Government h
II pursued, and which this Congress b.
pursued compelled to il by such psni
men,s as | hear on that side-has desol
N ted Pennsylvania. The flower Of o.
). people are modering in the swampS
d Virginia because we will not employ tho
5. who ought to be fighting this battle.
!. New England in every hamlet mourns
dead. So do the Middle atd Weste
,e States Aud | am TO stand here and
!. be told that it will mot do to let black M
10 shoot and be shot Instead Of white me
,r abhor the doctrine, and l abbor Al
Of despiss the policy which has murder
III my neighbors and my friends. T
d blood oil thousands and tens Of thousan
,e Of freemen who. throughout this land a
ID mOldering in untimely graves. is DIP,
the souls OF this Congress and Cabin
~ - T"Hearl Hear from the gallery:] G
- forb id that l should withhold this Q
- preston OF sentiment. -