Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-03

as vindictive as the Yankees are now in their war
upon the South. The British stole as many negroes
i'll their campaigns Of lSlS-l4 as the Yankees have
lately and they stole them from no philanthropic
sympathy with the slaves, but in the wanton de-
sire of doing our people as much harm as possible
They, too, thought to cap the climax of Southern
misery by bringing into the field army fnegroes.
They organized several Of these black regiments
in the island of Jamaica, drilled them with great
assiduity, clad them in gaudy uniforms and armed
>them with muskets and bayonets. The negroes
liked the amusement amazingly for a while, and de-
lighted the officers engaged in the task Of converting
them into soldiers; but when them embarked upon
transports for the expedition against New Orleans,
while all other troops were joyful and confident,
the negroes fell into deep detection. The cause
was inexplicabe; but the dependency increased;
insomucb 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
A few companies were retained, probably to per-
form such mental labor as might become necessary
in the eXigeneeS 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 10 run the
guantet of cross fire from our 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; a CON-
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 so COMPOUNDED at the multiplicity OF noises,
that without further ado, they dropped the lad
ders and fell fiat 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 rlnSinU his nf the hattla rho off
writes The black troops behaved in the most
shameful manner to man, and, although hardly
exposed to fire. were in utter and abomnable con-
sternation, 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
panther might be whilst springng amongst
timid multitude. These black troops il Is said,
had behaved we'll at some West India Islands,
where the thermometer was NOSE 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 begin their
accounts with terms of severe censure but the
droery of the subject invariably Overcomes the in
dgnation Of the narrators and their language soon
relapSes into ridicule and commiseratiOn.
The negro is animal of unparalleled ferocity;
but it is only under circumstances when his victim
is completely in his power. The least opposition
converts him into an arrant coward; and of gun
powder he has an extraordinary horror He trembles
at the discharge of pistol or musket, and the
of artillery trans6xes him with fear. In the insur-
rection Of Nat TURNER, several hundred negroes, .
flushed with success and maddened by liquor and
boodshed, were checked, and held at bay, and driv
off from one house in their course, by and old
man, his son and two faithful negroes. Two or.
binary SHOT guns suticed to carry panic into null
titude.
The malignity Of the Yankees has led them into
what will prove fatal bunder. The negro cannot
make soldier. Nothing could be more favourable.
to the South than the resolution Of the North to
ly upon black troops to fill up its armies. 1t will
cost the enemy much to keep black troops in the
field white and twenty negro soldiers is not
equal to one white man. A negro army as multi
tudinous as the hosts Of NERVES. could be success
fully wthstood by few hundred Southern troops.
The North cannot multiply negro forces in numbers 7
sufficient to conquer the South. If the North de-
sired to bring the war, on its part to the most in
glorious and ridiculous termination possible, it
could not hit upon expedient to more efectually
insure the result than by replacing their white
troops with black.
The admixture of negroes with white men in the
Yankee armies will disgust the latter and democrat
lie the whole. The North has now a fine army; !
and they taking the most certain measures to
utterly denoralize it The abotioniSts may talk of
the equality OF the races; but the white Yankees
will notconsent to social intercourse with the black
1he euucatcu Classes vi boston may nave tutoreu
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 gnomnious dis
solution of that once proud and honorable organi-
cation. .
Last summer when the army of KIRBY SMITH was
Thought to threaten Cincinnati and there Eas the
usual etterVescence Of patriotism in that CITY, the
colored population, amongst other classes, called a
meeting. They unanimously rendered their services
Tor the common defence, in resolutions exuberant
with patriotism. Towards the conclusion Of the
meeting, and after the heaviest. explosions of patti
otto gas had subsidized an 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
coloredn companies and reoimepts announced |