M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-07-09

as ITO iearEeu Tie DIVINE pleasure M
verify would Go the will ofthe Masto
who sent him. The revelation came
doubtless. "by due course o! mail.
judging from that (which is written,
it amounted to this: that in portion,
of Virginia and louisiana; in Della
ware, in Maryland, in Kentucky, il
Tennessee and Missouri, it was law
iul for traitors who had accepted tn,
4 1amnesty provided by the confiscatlor
law, and all other persons, to hole
slaves but that in the tide water re
gions OF Virginia, and in that part o
Louisiana which had not been conse
Grated to slavery by the military occu
patton of General Butler, as also in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Flor.
ida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Texas, it should nc
longer be lawful for the Union mon,
women, aud children to hold cur AT.
riCan tellow-citizens to service or la.
Dor. And yet there are those of the
"Copperhead persuasion" who profess
not to see The wisdom of this great
master-stroke OF our most noble and
exalted President. Sir, did it not i'm.
mediately divide the South and unite
tho North Z Were not our camps
forthwith crowded with countless
myriads Of bold and ardent recruits ?
Have not "our American brethren
of" African descent" crowded by thou
sands into our ranks, inspiring our
soldiers with a wild enthusiasm, and
rendering night vocal with the songs
of entrarchised Dinahs and muling
and puking Sambos 2 And have not
our arms been victorious everywhere
since the dawn OF the negro milen.
mum OF 1862
I.know that men like General NJ
Brayman, who commands in your
vicinity (at Bolivar, Tennessee,) are
guilty OF absurdti1s of speech, which
afford the enemies Of our sasacious
President excuses for complaint and
criticism. For instance, on the 14th
OF last March that officer, then in com
mand at Bolivar, wrote as follows In
regard to the Proclamation of Free~
dom, with which our ilIutrious and
far seeing President greeted the ad
vent Of the new year. The loyal man
is equally helpless with the di8loyal -
in fact, moro so; for the rebel takes
his slaves South, or hires them in the
army in which he himself serves while
the slaves of loyal men flee to our
camps beyond reclamation. Under
this process the rebel holds his slavee
by carrying them into a State in which
they are declared free, while the law
abiding citizen loses his by retaining
them in a State where it is lawful to
hold them. AS it is now, the loyalty
and good conduct OF these men avail
them nothing" Y
In speaking of the elevating effect:
Of this system upon our armies and
the negroes, Gen. Brayman shocks
our sensibilities by the use of such
language as this: Their expense
to the Government is enormous. i
requires soldiers to guard them. They
sicken and lie in filthy corra!s. They
become debased and demoralized
They debaSe aud demoralize tht
army" ..
Now among the resolution YOU vii
adopt at the Memphis meeting there
should, by all means, be one censur
ing Gen. Brayman for the use of Ian
guage so insulting to sour fellow
citizens of African DESCENT" ard Sc
Justly calculated to incense the slave
owners in Tennessee wso have Sc
stubborhly refused to join the rebels
Why, sirs, this license of speecl
must be suppressed. What right have
men who do not support the present
wise and efficient administration tC
criticise its policy Or the consequen
ces ofit9 Within the last few days
have heard persons in this city-ir
this capital which bears the sacred
name OF Washington, and which fol
the present is the home Of our illus
triOTs chief magistrate-draw seem
ingly invidiouS distinctions between
the fate of Jesse D.. Bright, Of Indi
ana, and that of John M. Butts, o
! Virginia. How my blood boiled witt
pious indignation when, few day;
ago, heard q certain individual o
the straightest sect of Copperhead'
discussing thus: "Jesse d. Bright
of Indiana, was expelled from thu
: Senate of the United States last year
charged with reasonable practices
LIE then owned a farm and negroes il
} Kentueky-stlll owns them. lie &C
cepted the amnesty provided in the
so-cal'ed confscation law whicl
passed Congress last July. He il
now proposing to accompany his fam
lily on a pleasure trip to Earope, leav
ing his large properties in Indiana
and his slaves in Kentucky under th'