New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-30
A Biyounc Near Yorktown.
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune. ma

This sbadowy procession, moving through the
night mist-men in pairs carrying on their shoulders
not the dead nor wounded nor sick mo, only
pabions suspended on poles. Significant OF much.
Another regiment following-the lightning which
becins 10 come with the hot rain from the seaward
thinning, not bayonets, but ,hoves and pickaAes'
They 20 into the daIk-to do what
shall soon send you in bottle part Of YORK
,orp. in the form Of ashes. These marvellous New
ENGLAND soldiers build batteries by night and in the
rain. with the same energy and skill with which
thew repair locomotives, construct railroad bridges,
run arist-mills, and reconstruct abandoned saw-mls
Puritan Mortimer We are indeed demi-gods.
George Washington! fetch more l-gs'
The FIRE of green yellow pine mounts higher and
By ts great blaze the features Of the Virginia s'ye
emancipated by The war show an unmixed African
descent.
4 ACoioaei-This war is the solution Of the Slavery
question. Who can solve the riddle Of the Negro
Question
A Geaeral-God is solving IT, wish It were
possible for politicians TO treat his Providence WIN
resgect, and leave him alone The dissppearance OF
races il historical and r philosophical iact roo
old to excite srrprise. The solution OF the Negro
Quesiion will be found in the com 'inglng OF the
blood of the Two races. Feeblei berreness, ana
extinction will be the inevitable sequence. Races
Of men preceding the copper d! e. have dissp-
peared from the American cont uent. The red man
is fact going. The black man i'll -ovitsbly follow
the Indian into history and tradition Tnis continent
and its island appendages are ior Saxon breed
five regiments OF which, at once iiriors' poiiti-
clans. .nyneers merchants mechanic and eiyiizers,
have lust gone into the dark there, 20 enable Us TO
crs.h Yorktown some morning before breakfast.
A LieuieHant-I saw a remarkable evidence
three days ago, that Slavery has established rot IN
the milit. character OF these yirginans. On their
right. OF Jsite Ayers terrible rilc-guns, negro
could J. cen in an embmsure occasionally, going
through ~ snatches with the loading Of piece,
which q regular guuners dared not work. They
were unmarly enough to push the niger iorwsId
to be killed.
A Cariiian-The chivalry of this war is inevitably
Northern. It can't be Southern. 1t is not possible
for man educated from infancy to the violation OF
all the rights Of another to be aai y and generous.
saw what the Lieutenant oes, jes, and | saw
a contrast to il at the zane - Ayres, who
j. us brave ~ he s skillmI, lay pcn gun looking
through his field glass steadily At Rebel officer on
honeback within the enemys 1pper works. He
the distance was TOO great for Identification Rising
he said, 81 can't make him out-but he has Wes'
Point look I glanced significantly al a sharp
shooter under the gun, holding across his knees one
Of those rifles that miss, and then glanced in
quiringly into Ayres handsome face. " | am not a
murderer, Sir % he said " kill men only in actual
bst,e" and strobe away with dignity.
a Cqptau-SlGyery makes men liars and thieves.
Children in the South are sucked, and nursed by
slayes-play with slayes-and receive their earies!
impressions and most abiding education from slaves.
Lying and stealing are the vices OF slaves consider
this creature Bcauregard. How his proclamation to
his army at Manassas was "a lie How he lies in biz
letters and orders Floyd 10 another fair sample.
lie was thief by education, aud hnr by habit.
The Rebels use their newspaper8 10 mlsead Us with
lies. They hide and cover, with cunning tlat
Northern men know nothing about. We publish
everything in newspspers-slmply from haOhual
frankness They publish nothing became silence is
OF the deenses Of sayes and daIkuess the cover
OF much Of Southern life.
A MaJ0r-Well, gentlemen what YOU will Of
these villans, they are in earnes. about this war,
and that is what We are not.
There wac very expressive = encea about The gr,ai
Ire. More than one officer stopped, and eyaded u
reply, by taking up block OF pine and casting on
the flaming heap.
4 Ctv.AdH-Gentlemen, permit me modestly 10
remark, that my idea of as long since realized
by Cromwell in Ireland.
Aaotlet GeNeral-And min. by Hannibal in
bis 10 years lighting in Italy.
4 Lieuteaaat-And mine by Scipio and the
Roman powshare in Carthage.
Anotler General (resumipg)-We have got 10
whip these people. compromise is utterly impos'
sble. We have got TO whip them permanently, 80
that they will stay whipped T. do this, Slavery,
the origin Of the war; must oease to exist.
4 Coiosei-I WIS full Of impat.ence at the
length of the war, when il had lasted six months.
Now every week that is added to il gives me hope
aud comfort. 1t is one Gity-second part OF dead
certainty that when 10 back 10 my law office, thero
wont be a slave within the limits OF the Republic.
don't care snap Of my finger how much the war
costs. Our grandchildren can pay the WAL debt, II
we aud our children cant. To free tho nation dom
Slavery, and to plant civilization in the fifteen 10.
yoltcd States id good eheapIy purchased at thres
Thousand million dollars.
-----'s Stat OGieer-Thc mction of Slavery
n fifteen States seems to me ie depopulation OF
fifteen States. What will that cost the North
4 Moyo,-lt viii cost il the expense of coloniz-
.Dg the South.
A L,catenant-The Romans coonized their con.
qaered Territory, indeed, all colonization has been
military, even our own. We ciaim that Il has been
peaceiuI but tibe Of lndSps has been Shot oil the
asaee Of every Wceicrn State
a AGenesaI-Gentlemeu, I tell you that the occu-
A,l. Il Al I.is.