New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-28
INsUEyKECTION.

nouncement that force of 5000 negroes is
about 10 enter one Of the slave districts
in the Department of tho South, to sum.
mon tho loyal blacks to arms, and to
carry the war into the heart Of Rebellion.
This purpose is of course perverted BY
the Rebel press into an intention to excite
the slaves to "that species OF insurrecton
which would unfortunately sley women and
children"-to o warfare as barbarous and
savage and az criminal az the use OF poisoned
weapons We quote the language Of The
~ Y EJpress.
To which we Ieply-Fira: That serylle
instruction, properly so called, does not imply
the horrors with tie parade of which The
E1press endeayors to brighten its tmid readers.
| The negroes are q humane, kindly. and gen.
erous people. II they rose in instruction,
they would use so much violence as was neces-
sary 10 gain their freedom; but il is not prob
able that even the inhuman crueltes which
they have suffered and which The Express
would continue 10 impose on them would in
cite them to use more than is necessary.
Secondly: Suppose it were an Insurrection.
VIVA. is there 10 that word to fright tue ma.
tiyes OF this land from their propriety' Is an
| insurrecton OF blacks worse than an nsurroc-
ton OF whites IL ii moro criminal in the
negroes 70 rise against cruel masters for their
own freedom, than in their masters to rebel
against the Government for the sake of per
petuating Slavcry' Is it a nord that divides
our opinion, or shall We consider the facts as
they are, and not as it pleases the Northern
allies Of Southern treason 10 misIeprescnt them
Thirdly; This Government is at War u has
military right, recognized by the Law of
Nations TO avail itself Of intestine dscords in
its enemys country. II has right to create
dsafectop. and to use it when excited. II
has right 10 stimulate InSurrection, and it is
not by any code of international law or mill
tary ethics responsible for the calamities which
are thus brought upon its enemies. And what
is true Of war against a foreign enemy Is
true a Cortiori Of the war by which tho Nation
is now seeking to subdue Rebellion and pre-
serve the Republic.
Founhiy: Gen. Hunter does not propose 10
stir up q scribe insurrection, or any nsurTec-
ton. by the terms of the Proclamation of the
President, the negroes in South Carolina are
free, but rebelliOus whites persist in holding
them as slaves. Gen. Hunter is sendug-we
hope has already sent--a force partly black
and partly white to occupy a district Of which
the white population is undoubtedly uDani-
mously Rebel. lie will invite the free blacks
of that district to join his standard, aud to
the end that they may aid in securing their
own freedom and supprcssing the white Re
bellioD, they will be armed. organized. and
mustered into the service Of the United States.
Such force will be able to penetrate into
Rebel territory further and moro safely than
ole wholly composed Of whites, aud will in
time convince even The Express that the Proc
amaton, thus carried into effect, is not the
absurd and Intellectual measure which that pa
per has delighted TO declare il. Indeed it is
significant that the moment such Il step is
about to be taken. The Express ceases its cry
against the Proclamation as measure of no
efficacy. and passing to the other extreme,
denounces it % a savage and barbarous in
strument Of war.
From the beginning Of this war we have
believed that the Government might crush the
Rebellion whenever it chose TO put its hand
heartily TO the work. We believe that Slavery
wos the main cause and has been one Of the
manstays Of the Conspiracy against the Re
public. We believe that by assailing Slavery,
freeing the slaves and arming them, we are
striking at the strength Of the Rebellion, and
that when once this policy is decsively adopted
and vigorously pursued we may count on the
speedy and complete overthrow of Treason,
both North and South. So believing. we re-
ioice to hope that the hour approaches when
tho Government is about to act Let loyal
men throughout this country. which is speedily
TO be saved or lost, unite in earnestly
urging that thes new method Of war.
fare shall be genemi-that it shall be
adopted not experimentally or locally. but with
full conviction Of its urgent necessity and with
unrelenting purpose to carry it at the same
moment and at this moment into every State and
district that owns the sway Of Jefferson Davis,
Put Butler at New. Orleans and Fremonh ut
North Carolina, and with their names n rally
tho blacks the Rebellion may be grdled with
Ere in a month, and its military strength
utterly subdued before Summer. And when
Qrce tho Three Millions Of Negroes in the South