The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-06-23
From the Nashville Union, June l., 1853.
The Negro WOrshippers.

We said some weeks ago that the cop
perhead-unconditional-pro-slavery men
were the real negro worshippers They
would drive white laborers ont of the
country by introducing an army OF
slaves
They would ruin all-other classes to
protect and enrich the STAKEHOLDER. All
non-slaveholderS are superfuities, and
excrescences on the body of slave society,
and the STAKEHOLDER is the only "legiti-
mate citizen" While the army DESTROYS
cattle, hogs, grain, meat, fences, forests,
and even houses, these negro worship
pers have nothing to say; but so soon as
it seizes slave, who is ploughing in the
field, for the benefit of the Confederate
! army, they raise a yell of Indignation
and wrath They are willing that white
men sshall be marched into the battle
field, to face the rebels, and have no
sympathy to express for the white soldier,
but they grow indignant at the sugges-
ton that the negroes should be suffered
TO fight against the armies of JEFF Davis;
and We find that although they have no
feeling of compassion for the white sol
dier, they are wonderfnliF tender towards
tue u1uck man. remarkable ifIustfa-
ton of this feeling was given. the other
day, by Governor Seymour, Of New York
The Troy IN. ~ Times says that "a
committee of cOlored men from that city
waited upon Governor Seymour last
week, and asked him whether lie wou d
favor the organization of regiments ot
black men. He replied that he should
not, saying that he had too much sym
pathy for the blacks to do so, as the po-
sItion they must occupy would be one of
extreme danger and would lead to dread
ful and unnecessary sacrifice of life"
Compassionate and considerate Gov
ernor! The lives of our white soldiers
are risked and exposed daily They are
marched up in front of flaming bat
teries to almost certain death. They
are ordered to attack the powerful iorti-
fications of Charleston, Vicksburg and
Port Hudson, although the lives of thou
sands must inevitably pay the forfeit.
They are exposed to all the perils of the
march, the camp and hospital They are
even dispatched on secret expeditions
as spies, although their arrest mustinev-
itably be followed by death on the gal
lows. All these dangers must be en-
countered, and all these hazards be run
by the white soldier, the free-born Amer
lean citizen, but the heart of Gov. Sew
mour is too compassionate to expose the
poor negro to such dreadful risks. The
Louisville Democrat says:
Governor Seymour, of New York. is
certainly placing himself nearly in the
van OF the conservative movement His
course on the suspension of the habeds
corpus act and arbitrary arrests, is al
ready sgiciSRtly }pPiiisEFF sEF EiffR EFifBR. tho
A number of "colored men" applied
to him as committee to ask his assist
ance in the organization of black reei-
ment The Governor very peremptorily
declined, and is now being very hand
somely berated by the Black Republi.
cans for it
The chief cause Of quarrel is that,
among other things, he said that they
could not receive the protection of the
Government, and this has. of course,
aroused indignation. 1t is, however, a
trnth If a regiment of blacks are seiz-
ed and handed over to the State authori-
ties, We are scarcely willing to see a reg
iment of whites punished in like manner,
by retaliation and counter-retaliation.
Thus the negro soldier has not the same
| protection that is extended to the whites,
and this the Republican papers know,
although they studiously strive to con-
ceal it.
The Governor appears to feel the ab-
surdity of his refusal, and he attempts to
sustain it by reason which has no
foundation in fact He ought to know
that the Government is pledged to give
its black soldiers the same protection
that it gives to its white ones, and more
over, that it has the poacer to enforce
that protection.
The secret of thia opposition to the
employment of black soldiers, is the
knowledge that unless the enlistment be
speedily checked, very large proportion
of the able-bodied laborers in the rebel
States, who are nov raising breadstuffs
for the rebels, will be in the ranks of the
National Army, eager to FIRE at the head
of avar-, +-o - - Srovcs u
feed our enemies. or put bayonets i'll their
hands and tell them 10 prick the follow
ers of Isham c. Harris and jeff Davis
in the stomach? The negro where he
is" is, in nine cases out Of ten, our ad.
versary by compulsiUu. The negro
where he might be, would make the
Southern rebellion tumble to pieces in
twelve months