New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-24

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A black cooper recently told us that be went
the rounds of the city seeking work, and was
repeatedly answered by employers, eyes, we
want help, and would gladly hire you; but if
we did our White hands would stop work md
create riot, so we must refuse you employ
ment."
Four millions of enslaved Blacks have kept
the Rebellion alive these two years by their
coerced and unpaid labor, though nine.tenths
of them would gladly escape from its service if
they could. President Lincoln has EpOken the
word which calls them from the. service of
Treason to that of the Union. Many Of them
are joyfuly needing tho summons. But Sham
Democracy is everywhere doing its utmost to
repel them, disgust them, and drive them back
into the service of the Rebellion. To this end,
it is making laws in Indiana and Illinois to
enslave these poor fugitives from the devils
service, punish oil who employ or shelter them,
and thus act as police and bloodhounds for the
slayeholding traitors. New-Jersey is preparing
to follow in the same track; and every State,
district or negbborheOd which is under Dem
ocratic rule or influence treats these poor fngi-
tives from the service Of Treason for more
harshly than it does deserters from Our Union
armies.
Wherever Democratic regiments are sta
toned in slave districts, there every effort is
made TO stimulate abuse Of the poor. despsed
contrabands." They are hOoted, slandered,
matreated, as though they had ovinced signal
depravity in escaping from Slavery and Trea-
son to enter the service Of Liberty aud Union.
Are they welcomed and employed BY our COM
manders1 Then it is charged that "Diggers
are treated better than white men 7" Are they
neglected and leit to SILVER in rags and famish
Then it is "See those lazy niggers they are
dying Ike rotten sheep. Isn't it plain that
they can't take care Of themselves and had
better been left in Slavery" And if they are
uniformed and drilled to fight for the Union,
every low, vulgar prejudice is invoked to mako
the White soldiers disafiected and mutinous, on
the assumption that this is "a war for the
niger In short, the fugitves from Slavery
not seized on by the Sham Democratic press
and politicians, in our camps as well as else
where, to demoralize the army and damage the
cause of the Union.
Tie Hartford Times recently proclaimed and
chucked over report that some of our sol.
diers on the Rsppahannock recently traded on
three negroes for three sheep with the Rebel
pickets in their front. The fact that this
passing persons through our lines to the enemy
without authority from headquarters was a
fragrant violation of the Articles Of War as
well as an express act of Congress, and might
have been the means Of carrying vitality inn
portaut information to the Rebel commander,
does not in the least impair the favor Of the
joke to the traitorous sheet that uttered it.
Letters from the various Union armies are
constantly appearing in tho Sham Democratic
journals purporting to be written by privates,
and composed in about equal parts Of CON-
and aspirations for speedy peace. The Io9th
Illinois, whereof the Lieut.. Colonel and n large
portion Of the subordinate officers and soldiers
have gone over to the Rebels or accepted
bogus paroles Of them in order TO evade fur.
ther service, began its career of hunting ne
groes in Illinois, and ends it in the more open
service Of JEFF. Davis Tho disgracelul sur.
renders Of posts, camps. and steamboats,, thnt
have so greatly damaged the Union cause in
what is DOW Gen. Rosecranss department, were
doubtless mainly prompted by Like disloyal
spirit.
This Nation will yet be saved if it ought to
be: if it has renowned its faith in the cardinal
doctrine OF tue Declaration OF Independence, it
ought not TO be. II will be saved if it heartily
accepts aud welcomes to lis service all its
loyal children: it will be lost if it shall be 30
blind OF so base a. to drive Four Millions Of
People, who want to aid it in its agony, back
into the abhorred service Of SlayeholdinS Trea.
son. Should it repulse their offers Of humble
but devoted Loyalty, Died as tho fool dieth'
will be legbIy and impreSsiyely inscribed OYER
its already yawhing tomb.
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