Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-25
MOrtcster DaiIp Syn
THE DAILY spy.
Proposition to Raise $4,000 COIOred
Soldiers.

The following document is in circulation in
this vicinity =
The undersigned, a committee appointed by
Gov. Andrew to aid in the enlistment of col
ored troops, and since enlarged by his excel
lencys authority, are assured that in order to
raise fifty thousand accliHated soldiers, it is
necessary to collect by private subscription
the sum Of fifty thousand dollars, and that
this sum, with the facilities furnished by gov
ernment, will accomplish the object
The money to be used for extraordinary
expenses by Major Stearns, the general re-
cruIting agent Of the government, whose past
success in this work ensures the accomplish
ment Of his pledge to that effect.
1t seems to us that the prompt enlistment
OF c0lored men is all important to the Union
cause.
We therefore ask the loyal citizens of New
England to furnish the sum named and we
firmly believe that for each dollar subscribed
new soldier will be enrolled under the flag
Boston, August 3, 1868.
Signed by j. NJ Forbes, Cakes Ames, T..
II. Hoar, }. L. Goodrich, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Benz. F. Butler Emory Washburn,
Henry Wilson, Alex. II. Rice, John g. Pal
trey, and large number of other influential
and patriotic citizens Of the commonwealth,
PAYMENT OF EXPENSES FOR RAISING CoLoRED
REGIMENTS.
The following letter from an official source
definitely settles some questions which have
arisen respecting the expenses incurred for re-
crui:ing colOred troops -
HEADQUARTERS, 1910 Chestnut street. Phil
adelphia, Aug 3, l8G3.-Amos A. Lawrence,
Esq, Boston Dear Sir: In reply to the in
curry, ''Wllat are the expenses of raising col
. ored regiments which cannot be paid by the
United States government" | have to state
that the war department is ready to pay all
expenses that are allowed by the rules of the
recruiting service; but the employment of
special agents and many other expenses
which greatly facilitate the work, cannet be
allowed at the treasury department, even if the
war department should order them paid by its
agents. because they are not provided for by
law.
In recruiting white troops such expenses
have been borne by funds raised from ndivid-
ual contributions, and also for all the colored
regiments north The two Massachusetts
colored regiments cost $4,000 over the
amount allowed hy the state and the United
States. Philadelphia has raised fund of
S3u,OOO Tor the same purpose, and expects to
raise from $4,000 to $50, 600 more
Colored regiments raised in the slave states
will cost much less than in the free states;
men are more abundant and labor is not so
well remunerated as at the north 1t is not
necessary for me to allude to the advantage
derived from recruiting acciimatvd tsvvrs-
Respectfully,
GEORGE. l.. STEARNs, Major and A. A. G.
Recruiting Com. for U. S. G. V.
FEW OF THE REASONS FOR RECRUITING OUR
BLACK ARMY.
We copy the following from the Daily Adj
vertiser OF the oath -
TO the Editors Of the Boston Daily Adcer
tiSer-
First Every negro enlisted in the rebel
states takes one man from the enemy's re-
sources, and thus counts as double.
Second Acclmated negroes are now ad
milted by even the most prejudiced to be more
valuable, man for man, than unacclimated
white troops at the south.
Third. Every negro trained to arms adds
to the facilities for reconstruction by taking
away from the Shareholders the hope of re-
establishing their peculiar institution. 1t is
notorious, to-day, that the leaders continue
the rebellion solely for the one purpose of re-
tanning their slaves and the political power OF
combination which slavery gives.
When that hope dies, the rebellion will die
with 1t; for to every other individual, black
or white, in the rebel states, our success prom
Uses freedom and democratic institutions in
place of slavery and arstocracy
Fourth. The Emperor Napoleon, the very
shrcwdest military ruler in the world, fully
appreciates the value Of negro soldiers. Wit
ness his attempt to import them from Egypt
into Mexico What chance would he think
the rebels had with or without his help, if he
knew we had 100000 black soldiers trained
to arms.
Fifth. Our friends and our enemies, in both
England and in France, base their hopes
and their fears of our success upon our use
of the negro clement, and our best guarantee
against intervention, is an army of POO 900
blacks.
Sixth. Economy of our home resources
points to using the acclimted and unemploy-
ed blacks of the south to the greatest extent
possible rather than to draw any more than
we can help upon our skilled and well paid
labor at the north where every man is want
ed for workshop or harvest.
Seventh. Military service is the best mode
of training the freedman to his new duties, of
preventing irregular warfare of black against
white, aud of raising the negro in his own self
respect and in that of his white fellow coun-
tryman.
The Atlantic Magazine has shown that the
horrors Of 81. Domingo were for years
taught to the blacks by the whites who were
striving to return them to slavery after years
of freedom, under the DEGREES Of the French
republic, and even then were only partly imi-
tated by the mildcr blacks
Our rebel soldiers and guerrillas have be-
gun the atrocious lesson to the blacks, who
have not even begun to retort, but such seed
can bear but one kind of differentiation
The way to prevent it is to keep it under mill.
tary bounds; and first of all to organize large
armies of the blacks, thus settling forever the
question of re-enslaving them.
Thus economy at home OF our own men,
economy Of life and men by shortening the
war-satety from foreign Neutrality-suspicious..
ity from repetition Of the horrors of ST. Do.
mingo By the JlackS-in short every motive Of
expediency and of principle point to this move.
ment as the most important one Of the present
day.
Let every man who sees this help it in the
way he best can-the press and the clergy by
enlightening public opinion already turned il
the right MISUNDERSTANDING by money
and pen, and time. AUDAX.
A Wedding Spoiled.
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