Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-03
NOrtester Daily SPY,
Correspondence of the N Y, Tribune.
A BIvOUAC NEAR YORKTOWN.


sick-no, only gabions suspended on poles
Significant Of much Another regiment 70
lowing-the lightning which begins to com
with the hot rain from the seward, illuming
not bayonets, but shovels and pickaxes. The
go into the dark-to do what?
l shall soon send you in bottle part O
Yorktown, in the form of ashes. These mar
vellous New England soldiers built batterie
by night and III the rain, with the same skill
and energy with which they repair locomo
motives, construct railroad bridges, run list
mills, and reconstruct abandoned saw mills
Puritan Mortimer We are indeed dem gods
George Washington, fetch more ogs!'
The fire OF green yellow pine mounts high
er, and by lis great blaze the features of The
Virginia slave empancipated by the war show
an unmixed African descent
A ColonsL-Ths war is the solution of III,
slavery question. Who can solve the riddle
OF the negro question
4 Geneiul-GOd is solving it. l wish il
were possible for politicians to treat his Prov
idence with respect, and leave him alone The
disappearance OF races is Il historical and q
philosophical fact too old to excite surprise
The solution of the negro question will be
found in the commingling of the blood oil
the two races. Feebeness, barrenuess, and
extinction will be the inevitable consequence.
Races OF men preceding the copper col
ored have disappeared from the Ameri-
can continent. The red man is fast going.
The black man will inevitably follow the In.
dian into history and tradition. The cont
nent and its island appendages are for the
Saxon breed, five regiments of which, at once
warriors, politicians, engineers, merchants,
mechanics and civilizers, have just gone into
the dark there to enable us to crush York
town some morning before breakfast.
Il LteutendHt.-I saw remarkable evidence
three days ago, that slavery has established a
rot in the military character of these Virgin
ians. On their right, opposite Ayers terrible
rifle guns, negro could be seen in an embra-
sure occasionally, going through by snatches
with the loading OF a gun, which the regular
gunners dared not work They were unman.
ly enough to push the Niger forward to be
killed.
A Civiian.--The chvalry of this war is
inevitably northern. 1t can't be southern. 1t
Is not possible for man educated trom infian.
cy to the violation OF all the rights of another,
to be manly and generous. | saw what the
lieutenant describes, and l saw a contrast TO
1t at the same time. AyreB, who is as brave
as he is skillful, lay upon gun looking
through his held'glasS steadily at Y rebel Off
Ger on horseback within the enemy's upper
works. He could descry his ssoHched hat and
his full beard-but the distance WAS too great
for Identification Rising he said, Il can't
make him OUTPUT lie has West Point
look" glanced Significantly at a sharp
shooter under the gun, holding across his
knees one of those rifles that never mss, and
then glanced inquiringly into Ayres' hand
some lace. L am not a murderer, sir - lie
said, 81 kill men only in actual pattIs, an"
strobe away with dignity.
4 Cdptain-Slavery makes men liars and
a.. s,,k nttth cn1plyl a1
and uursed by slaves--play with saves-aud
receive their earliest impressions and most
abiding education from slaves. Lying aud
stealing are the vices OF slaves--conslder this
creature Beauregard. How his proclamation
TO his army at Manassas was a lie y! How lie
lies in his letters and orders Floyd is anOth-
er fair sample He was thief by education,
and liar by habit. The rebels use their
newspapers to mislead us with lies. They
hide and cover, with cunning that northern
men know nothing about We publish every
thing in ewspapers-simply from habltnal
frankness. They publish nothing, because 81.
lence is enc of the defences OF slaves, ana
darkness the cover Of much Of southern lie.
A Major-Well gentlemen, say what you
will of these villains, they are in earnest
about this war, and that is what we are not.
There was a very expressive silence about
the great fire. More than one officer stopped,
and evaded reply, BY taking up block Of
pine and casting it on the flaming heap.
A CiVi!iGn--Gentlemen permit ME modest.
ly to remark, that my idea of war was long
since realized by Cromwell in Ireland.
Another General-And mine by Hannibal, in
hia 10 years fighting in Italy.
A Lieutenant-And mine by ScipiO and the
Roman plowshare in Carthage.
Another General (resuming)-We have got
to whip these people A compromise is utter
ly impossible We have got to whip them
permanently, so that they will stay whipped.
To do this, slavery, the origin of the war, must
cease to exist
A CoLonel-I was full of impotence at the
length of the war, when it had lasted six
months. Now, every week that is added to
it gives me hope and comfort. 1t is one fifty
second part of dead certainty that when
90 back to my law office, there won't be Il
slave within the limits Of the Republic.
dou't care a snap OF my finger how much the
war costs. Our grandchildren can pay the
war debt. if we and our children can't. IC
free the nation from slavery, and to plant civil
ization in the fifteen revOIted states, is good
cheaply purchased at three thousand million
dollars.
- Staff 06fcer-The extinction OF sla
very in fifteen states seems to me the uepOpu
lation OF fifteen states. What VIII that cos
the north?
A Major-lt will cost it the expense OF col
onizing the south.
A Lieutenant The Romans colonized thei
conquered territory indeed, all colonization
has been military, even our own. We CLAIM
that it has been peaceful but tribe of In
dams has been shot off the surface OF ever,
western state.
A GeneraL-Gentlemen tell you that tn
occupation OF the cotton lands of the rebel
is Il necessity We have either got to nc
knowledge the independence OF the revolet
states orrconquer them II we conquer them
slavery, of course. is ended. We cannot re
institute il, that is certain. The cotton land
have got to be worked. The whites of tn
south cannot and will not take the places O
their slaves in the fields We northern mel
have either got to go without cotton or produc
it. The army is pretty much MADE up Q
farmers, and their destiny, whether the.
know il or not, is to determine by experiment
the question If the men who hoe corn u
Pennsylvania and Ohio can hoe cotton III Cal
olina and Alabama II they can, they wi
be hoeing it within two years. The worI
cannot get along without American eottor
So prepare to have your sabres turned int
hoes. But we will talk politics pretty sooI
and get to quarreling. Col. -, did 70
ever before see sege i'll which the beleai
uered did not fire upon their foe while bnil'
ing batteries, and moving whole regiments
working parties across an open plain und'
long-range guns
Colonel - What is the policy OF the
fellows?
Major-It we had the Monitor free to con
up to Yorktown or anything like the westel
boats Carondelet and Benton, to eo.opera
with us Tor twenty. four hours, this siege won