The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-27
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ropeAn aristocrats, affect Is be disgusted
and Mortified at the Federal GOVERNMENT
for enlisting black soldiers. They may
we'll be Mortified, for these troops, al
though beset with ADVERTISEMENTS and
of which our white troops
know nothing The subjects Of
insult and derision from the very men
whose cause they are helping--have
fought with distinguished success, and
defeated most ingloriously much larger
force Of the essence and flower OF
Southern, or more properly rebel chivalry. |
We can therefore excuse the horror which |
these rebels express. Their knees may |
we'll tremble AID their joints be loosened |
like those of Belshazzar at the banquet
To the traitors of cOttondom there must
be something appalling in the reflection
that without any invasion, in the very
heart and core Of the rebellion, in their
ewn houses there is stalwart enemy,
four million strong, who are ready TO
sweep them 10 destruction, and drown
the peTiured, false, blood thirsty, hypd-
critical, insolent rebellious slaveocracy
of the Gulf States in blood. "Look TO
your hearths, my lords" You who ride
forth booted and spurred to murder loyal
men and women in cold blood, and burn
their houses over their dead bodies, may
as well look back in your devils work TO
see whether there is not an avenger at
your hOmes.
But we digress. We excuse the "hor-
rOr," but pray, wherefore the "disgus"
at black troops? Is not France a polite
nation? Is not Paris the queen of FASH
ion, the leader of the beau monde, and the
oracle of exquisite aristocracy? Such
they have been regarded throughout Eu-
rope for centuries. An alliance with
even an humble French Count or Coun-
tess would throw South Carolina fam
lily, descended from the Huguenots,"
into a celestial ecstacy. Yet France en-
ploys black troops. The Emperor prides
himself on parsding negro soldiers, and
employs them not only in his African
campaigns, but marches them pOmpously
through the streets of fashionable, ele-
CANT, courtly and aristocratic Paris, be-
fore the admiring eyes of that Court
whom Slidell and other Southern chival-
ry have been sueing for favors and recog-
milton for more than two years. The
testimony on this point is abundant and
indispu.able.
Rev. John McClintock, d. D., the Paris
correspondent of Tile Methodist, (whose
services in both France and England
have been most useful 10 the United
States, and whose letters are among the
best foreign letters published in this
country under date Of May 18Th, writes
as follows on the subject of "Black
Troops" aa U.t 1si.9s
"5ome of the good people at home who
have got over the prejudices engendered
by the long dominationof the slavehold-
ing aristocrats in American politics
seem 10 have a profound horror of colored
mon in uniform. II would do such per-
sons good to spend q few days in Paris
Just now. The lions OF the hour are che
Spahis and Tirailleurs of Algiers, who
arc nothing more nor less than colored
+ troops. A corps of them has recently
come 10 Paris, where they are to do duty
for the first time, in the garrison of The
metropolis. Crowds follow these sablC
or half-sAble warriors wherever they ap.
pear, not in mockery, but in genuine ad
miration of their stalwart forms and
soldierly bearing. a detachment o.
them has been appointed as q body.
guard for the young Imperial Prince, anG
they make a brilliant show every day
in their gay uniforms, escorting the Lads
carriage. The journals notice tbeii
movements every day. The Steele, oil
this morning, in announcing the arriva
of new battalion of the Tirailleurs
reports them as holding a middle place
between the white man and the negro
though many of them are much NOR,
negro than white. All are dark skinned.
Not 4 man of them would escape beinG
sold as a slave in Alabama, if found a
large there without papers or protection
The superior officers of these coIoret
regiments are all Frenchmen; the lowei
officers are half FIenchmen and half AT
ricans"
: What will Southern rebel arisiocracy
and their frivolous Northern sympathi.
zers say TO the fact that the Heir appa,
rent, the Imperial Prince of the House o
Napoleon, is surrounded by body
guard Of negro soldieys2 What will
they say of the degradation Of the Frenel
journals which notice these African war
; riOrs' dOings? What would John Sill
: delf say, if one Of these sable Imperia
Guards were to bid him halt?
Jehh. Davis Organ heproving ArIl,
tsh Sympathizsrs.
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