Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-04

In their contest with America the English were
as vindictve as the Yankees are now in their war
upon the South. The British stole as many negroes
in their campaigns of lS13-14 as the Yankees have
lately; and they stole them from no phanthropic
sympathy with the slaves, but in the wanton de-
sire of doing our people as much harm IS possible:
They, too, thought TO cap the climax of Southern
misery by bringing into the field army negroes.
They organized several of these black regiments
in the island of Jamaica, drilled them with great
assiduty, clad them in gaudy uniforms, and armed
them with muskets and bayonets. The negroes
liked the amusement amazingly Tor while, and de-
lighted the officers engaged i'll the task of converting
them into soldiers but when them embarked upon
transports for the expedition against New Orleans,
while all other troops We're joyful and confident
the negroes fal into deep detection. The cause
was inexplicable; but the dependency increased;
insomuch that shortly after reaching the Louisiana
coast the British commander sent back the greater
portion Of the negroes without the honor Of fight
being convinced that they would do more harm
to the enterprise than good
few companies were retained, probably to per-
form such mental labor as might become necessary
in the exigeneies ofinvasion. We shall let British
officer describe the behavior of these negroes in the
battle of the Eighth of January. At an early stage
of the engagement the British army had to run the
guantlet Of cross fire from batteries stationed
on each side of the river. "At this momentous
crisis" says captain COOKE in his narrative of the
campaign, "a droll occurrence took place; COM
pany of blacks emerged out of the mist carrying
ladders which were intended for the three light
companies of the left attack but these Ethiopeans
were COMPOUNDED at the multiplicity of noises,
that without further ado, they dropped the lad
ders and fell fat on their faces, and without doubt
had their claws been of sufficient length, they
would have scratched holes and buried themselves
from such an unpleasant mixture Of sounds and
confederation of iron projectiles which seemed at
war with one another, coming from two opposite
directions at one and the same time"
In closing his account of the battle, the same Off
Ger writes: 1.-THE black troops behaved in the most
shameful manner to man, and, although hardly
exposed to fire, were in utter and abominable con-
sternaton, lying down in all directions, and
amongst them the white plume nodded tri
umphant. One broad beaver with the ample folds
of the coarse blanket thrown across the shoulders
of the American, was terrible in their eyes as
panther might be whilst sprnging amongst
timid multitude These black troops, it is said,
had behaved we'll at some West India Islands,
where the thermometer was more congenal to
their feelings"
This is British testimony of British experience
with negro troops. Officers who had opportunities
to witness their conduct in the field all besin their
accounts with terms of severe censure; but the
drollery of the subject Invariably the in
tgnation of the narrators, and their language soon
relapses into riticue and commseration.
The negro is an animal of unparalleled ferocity;
but it is only under circumstances when his victim
is completely in his power. The least opposition
converts him into arrant coward and of gum
powder he has an extraordinary horror. lie trembles
at the discharge of pistol muSket, and the roar
of artillery transGxes him with fear. In the nsur-
rection Of NAT TURNER, several hundred negroes,
flushed with success and maddened by liquor and
bloodshed were checked, and held at bay, and driv
en- off from one house in their course, by and old
man, his son and two faithful negroes. Twb or.
binary shot guns suficed to carry panic into null
titude
The maIicnity Of the. Yankets has led them into
what will prove fatal blunder. The negro cannot
make soldier. Nothing could be more favourable
to the South than the resolution OF the North to re-
ly Upon black troops to fill up its armies. 1t will
cost the enemy as much to keep black troops in the
field as white; and twenty negro soldiers is not
equal to one white man. "A negro army as multi
tudlnous as the hosts of XERxEs, could be success
fully withstood by few hundred Southern troops.
The North cannot multiply negro forces in numbers
sufficient to conquer the South. If the North de-
sired to bring the war; its part to the most in
glorious and ridiculous termination possible, it
could not hit upon expedient to more effectually
insure the result than by replacing their white
troops with black.
The adrnixture of negroes with white men in the
Yankee armies will disgust the latter and democrat
lze the whole. The North has now fine army;
and they are taking the most certain measures to
utterly demoraze it The abolitionists may talk of
the equality of the races; but the white Yankees
will not consent to social intercourse with the black
The educated classes of Boston may have tutored
themselves into theoretical liberation of the dogma
that the negro is their equal but the lower classes
revolt at the actual CONTACT The introduction OF
negro regiments into the army of the United States,
will be the signal for the early and ignomnous dis
solution of that once proud and honorable organi-
zation
Last summer when the army Of KIRBY SMITH was
thought to threaten Cincinnati, and there was the
usual efervcscence Of patriotism in that city, the
colored population, amongst other classes called
meeting They unanimously rendered their services
for the common defence, in resolutions exubersnt
with patriotism. Towards the conclusion of the
meeting and after the heaviest explosions of patti
otto gas had subsidized elderly gentleman of color
arose. and addressed few temperate observations
to the chair. He remarked against the idea, which
seemed most popular in the meeting, Of organizing
6 eoloredn commands and repimentx annoupced A