The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-24
Correspondsnos OF the Cincinnati szetse
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LOUISVILLE Inlv 10

LOUISVILLE, July 18.
Well, Messrs. Editors, what do Won
think Of the situation" aou ? Can't YOU
call little ipadcr on "our Government
for more vigorous measures" | think.
slrs, unless things change, we might as
we'll give it up. We are by the rebel con-
scription outnumbered, out generated at
all points, losing our eslant army every
day by companies. regiments and brig
AIDES. Nowhere can we "turn wheel -
And now, al this lote hour, our immacu-
late Government is frittering away what
little time IT can spare from the Niger
question in blubbering about roluntce,,s.
Why in the d. don't our authorities q Q,
like men who have an object in view
which they were determined to accom-
plish, as the traitors do? Why have they
not sense enough to see that SO long az
the Niger is left undisturbed this re-
bellion cannot be put dowh. We talk
about our eighteen or twenty millions to
their six or seven millions. We should
count them treloe millions, for their four
millions OF slaves are IS useful TO them in
the prosecution of this war as an equal
number of our white population, as prodp-
ces; and twelve millions at home can
/" THRASH" twenty millions of invaders al.
ways. Again, we hear great deal said
OF employing slaves or blacks in camp
duty, Entertainments, &C., but not in bat.
tie. On no, that would be horrible that
is all sheer nonsense; that would give us
two armies to clothe and feed instead OF
one. No, sirs. Make them work. and
fight, too. like the deci Washington did
it; Jackson did it and what Mey did we
might afford to do, think, with safety.
Moreover, every nation under heaven,
who have them, thss use them and We
think there is no evidence on record of
their being less subordinate or dutiful
than their mhite fellow soldiers. Is there
any such record No, sirs. Send 49,
600 or $4,000 Of your free blacks into
our suffering army, to increase ad li5itmna
as we 60 South, and by all means, lea no
our enemies in the rear incapable Of rs
ing to burn and murder our STRUGGLING
soldiers and citizens.
MS, SITS, ID war the magnitude Of
which our rulers seem not vet te have
comprehended or realized, and we fear
they will not till too late to save us. l am
Southern man, q slaveowner, but i'll
necessary to the salvation Of the nation.
take my negroes; arm them, (nay, would
DO it myseif and fight with them, and
SOW the land Of traitors ia salt. They
have now 10000 or SOC, 900 men in the
field; We little over half that number
and they are capturing our men (and We
are losing through sickness, faster than
We are recruiting by volunteering."-l
Sirs, if things 60 on in this way. the ma
ton is lost beyond remedy. We should
BY draft launch zoo, 600 men Of all COL
ors into the field BY the first Of Scptem-
Der. Move them South, fixing every-
thing as they 60. beyond the possi5iliity
Of rising IN the rear. By frost Va
would be in the cotton yellow Jask'
States; BY spring through aud over them,
and the war wound up-niggerdom and
all. If the war is ever closed successful.
y, this, I opine, is the only plan. All 81
which is respectfully, By
Yours truly, &c.