New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-09-08
FROM VIRGINIA.
Aiming The sIaves-The Tee the Rebels
Wake Of Th~m-Our White Soldiers
I.ed ne Servnnts-The Rebels Make
the N-gro~. wsrI. sud Plight for Them.
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Corf..posderes Of Tho n. y. Tribune
POKrSyOtIu Va sept. Z

corf..poBdetcs Of The n. Y. Tribune
PORTSMOUTH. Va. sept. g. is,3.
Your Wa hing,on correspondent OF the Goth
III Get, a, res tho question whether or the Rebels
intend 20 arm their slaves sgans, IN determined
,t.rce 10 their nef,riou. scheme Of destroying the
so,ernmcu, u tho United States. Although very little
ereencs Ia, been given by tho neither ho. cold
- The s.uh M the prosecution Of tic var for the main
cuancc Of the Union to what you have said Oh this topic
from time TO time yc; we who have been eye witnesses
Il yla Is going in the states stu in rebellion have
al along Known, tia, the negroes irom the very first
were used lust az their services were In demand IN
rpt.r 81 the Rebellion When defenscs necessary
AZ yorktown, Richmond. yicksburg. and Charleston.
,ou.snd. W. r. demanded from tho citizens and rlaua
ton owners ,or hundred miles IN every direction. from
each city, and they were sent forthwith Instead Of EN-
moving enlisted servants officers still per
,st in doing Notwithstanding orders have been ssned
aglns, H. the blaoLs pg7shlscd or iircd for tina,
pnrp.c have yei to NEE; with single white man
among tie thousands Of Rebels have seen taken as
pr.osers who lad been serving In what I, known In our
army 5y tho common phrasc Orderly Tho negroes
arc used IN every capacity possible IL order to swell
the ranks OF the whites This has always been theruc
while 40 have employed enstcd men sscryau,s team
.trrs common aborcrs. to load and unload boats and
| ,rs. and 20 throw up all or immense e,rihworks j
have seen several thousands Of ous ncvy.ens,ed men
employed every day including Sabbath, for months IN
those ridiculous AID expensive works around Suffolk,
ylo should have been kept at daily drills TO I'll them
f the battle field and which thelT subsequent conduct
prored them incompetent for, while at the same Time
as many negroes ocking into lines Tor pro,cc
ton. willing and begging for employment. They had
escaped from being useful TO the Rebels against us to
be rejected for long time by our authorities helps To
Us Ia defending ourselves against worst enemies,
And nhlo we have been talking and qusrrcllag about
tho question whether we shall employ tie negro
soldier tho Rebels have secretly and quietly been at
work aud long before u.s. have actually Lad him drilled
as home guard and. much to chagrn, has him
pira!cd before with the chiyalry Of Georgia and
Louisiana as a common soldier in fully equipped com
pa.lins To NY certain know ledge, Longstreet at the
time ho pretended 10 bcsicgc Suid. while he cleared
the southeastern part u Virginia and the northeastern
part Of North Carolina of the millions of dollars worth
" goods aud other ncccssarirs smuggled into those
parts, through Norfolk. an average of slsouoo per
week. had companies of colored troops mingled with
the elite Of rebcdom" Al the same time (Lord have
mercy Us . there those In our army both OIL
cora and priv who would be damned If they were
going TO fight alongside Of the niggerp the Union
cant be saved without the Niger let il go" Al how
often have been made 70 blush with shame by such
reoroiuis to tlciI trust 10 the Government which has
done 30 nlnciI for them Let then assure your read
that ii is settled thing and has been almost on
the first with the Rebels to the negro against u.s.
and that six months ago they had regularly organized
troops from among their slaves.
Yours truly, StEC1Ay0k