Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-10-09
THE HOPE or ,fHENORTH.

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THE HoPE or ,tIENoRTH.
We copy below the special dispatch to
the Neao York Times. that most out-and-
out abolition sheet. from its Washington
correspondent:
lssIhe numerical strengthen the colored
regiments actually in tie field is somewhat
over 20 900 men less than has been gem
orally supposed This number does Dotin-i
clude colored men who have been regular
" enlisted in The service and now en-
ployed as teams.crs and in various other ca
pacities by the Government The number
so employed is about 25 900. The skele.
ton regiments scattered throughout the
country, principally in the Southwest.
are being rapidly recruited to their MAXI
mum standard, and before the end Of the
year is estimated that the Government
will have 80 600 negro soldiers in the field.
Ii. is the opinion Of eminent military men
hire that colored regiments WiN form the
basis gf our future armies and that the
Government eciU hareto rely mainly on col
ord troops to finish up tie rebellion =
II,wshave the MI hty fallen, The great
20 Yankee nation, boasting Of a popula-
tion Of twenty millions, and asserting at
the. commencement of. the war that they
would crush the rebellion in ninety days
Eare now forced. after trial Of two and a
half years, to make the humiliating ack-
nowledgement, that it is the opinion Of
s eminent military men that negro sregi-
menfs miU form The basis of their future
armies ard that the Government will have
to rely upon the Niger to finish up the re-
bellion." This is no confession for an OBJ
Iject but one forced from them by the stern
facts around them. Out of the three hum
dred thousand called FOR by Lincoln, more
than which number by far were enrolled,
not one in six Of these drafted are brought
into the field, in the State Of Rhede Island
a strong Administration State, the proper
ton is one to four and half, and in Mas
sachusetts only one in eight, while in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois the draft is entirely
suspended. II the proportion in Rhode
Island had have obtained throughout the
United States they would have secured on
~ IS, 600 men, but when the draft is sus-
pended in some States and the proportion
is only one in eight in others, not fifty
thousand can be mustered, of whom, three
fourths at least are substitutes and are TO-
tally unreliable. Hence il will be seen
that they must needs rely upon the negro
regiments .'as the basis Of their armies !"
This confession contains more than appears
upon its surface, that not only are the
twenty millions Of whites in the Uuitcd
States unable to subjugate the people of
the South, but that they must getth "ba-
sis of their future armies" from within the
limits Of the despised Confederacy- they
must force into their ranks the slaves of
the South. These slaves, ..the basis of
their future armies are, says writer 10
the North, SO I'm reliable that in the depart
m mt Of South Carolina they are no longer
to be used as soldiers but as laborers.
These facts must furnish quite an opiate to
the Yankee miDd-they are no longer to
have an army of soldiers and fight their
way to a successful crushing of the rebel
lion, but must depend upon an army of ne
groes, who have already been discarded as
soldiers in one Of their departments This
Acknowledgements must sound we'll to Eu-
ropeans, who are continually menaced by
the Yankees with the threats Of a sound
drubblng unless they conform to rules laid
down BY the ruler Of Yank sedom. How
fearful they must be of being thrashcd by
the Yankees with such armies
The acknowledgement that the negro is
not only to Re the equal but above the
white man, since they must rely on him to
finish up the rebellion, would be exceeding
ly Notifying to sensitive people, but me-
cessity knows no law" and in order to sub
jugste the South. having tried volunteering
and drafting without success, they grasp at
tho straw Of negro armies and exultantly
boast of it. The Confederacy will not be
subjugated by any means aud least Of all
by such armies. A nation superior in
numbers in the attempted suhjugation of
another greatly inferior in numbers and be-
ing reduced to the extremity their ..emi-
nent military men acknowledge, can
but find in it the proof given by an All
wise providence Of the righteousness Of
their use, and while it should cause
them to 1espond, should excite us to great
er exertions to secure quickly, that which
is certain in time, the independence Of our
beloved Confederacy.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
At meeting Of the officers Of the 7th
Regiment Va Cavalry. convened Septem-
Der 21st, 1868, 1t Col Thomas M1hsnALL.
was called to the chair, and 1t. D. Hun
pHREYs, appointed Secretary. when the fol-
lowing resolutions were nassed