Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-04-01
Gol The Poor Negro.


tinge than usual Many items relate to the negro, so
beloved by Lincoln and Seward that for his sake they
have made slaves Of twenty millions of whites at the
North, aud seek exterminats eight millions more
at the South We are told in the first place. that Sem
aOr Sumner Is IN Washington looking after the Organi-
astion Of the negro regiments. Doubtless, be will
look after them when they gone TO the field, not
with the agitation Of the hen who sees her duckings
venturing upon the unstable element Of water but with
the unconcern Of those suprsmely selfish hosts who
welcome the coming, speed the parting guest" 1t
never occurs 70 him or to his abotonist coAdjutorso
look AFTER Cufee in the hour Of battle, when deAth6eal
Jug balls are ,ing fast and when souls which, even IN
the negro are presumed to be OF worth than the
BODY, are being ushersd into the dread presence
of the Great Judge of the quick and the dead
Nay, truly, the fateful hour of conflict will find
the classical friend of the negro sitting calmly
before his wine and canvassback, or rspOsipg in
the luxurious chairs Of his library, indDg phlanhrop
&c letters to knAves Ike himself composing dAtrioes
against slave drives-carug nothing perhaps even for
getting the existence OF the "man ana orotner la
whose earthly welfare he pretsnds to be so deeply in
/ terested.
He has conferred" so reads the Yankee account,
ectOns of commanders for the black soldiers" 1t
strike every reader that the person who has held SO
many conferences on the subject that he is deemed
petent civilian he is to select commanders for the
black soldiers would be of all others the most cOmpe-
tent to command them. But it is not minated that
love for the sable soldier consultations with regard
TO the organization of his regiments has awakened any
military aspirations in the breast of the negrophist
Senator from Massachusetts,. Perhaps he still retains,
amid the wreck of his mental structure the faculty OF
memory aud recalls daily the apparton of slender
guttApercha cane descending the miraeulousy thin
skull OF ioul-mOuthed Asperser of the South If in
addition 10 memory he retains unimpAired the organ of
comparison, he may the blackboard of his dAs.
tardly ApPrehsnsiOns portentous sum in the rule Of
three chslked out in hugest fgures-thus AZ -
sSiCh in the hand Of Preston Brooks is two years
of sham paralysis aud idocy combined with travel in
foreign parts (pSd out Of uneArned salary ~ Senator
of the United States) and the MoKa 10 Paris so is re-
bel bullet in the head Confederate bayonet through
tue breast to the answer This is the pobIsm doubtless
that gives the Abolition DemOsthsnes pause, and il.
uces him to prefer phppics print patriotism on the
tented field
But the account does not stop With the declnaLon OF
military glory, as a leader OF arned ebony freemeu on
the part Of the pulling OpossuTl Of the North. 1t goes
on 10 state thai the questiOS to what sill be
pursued to protect the neO regiments frou the out
RACES threatened be PActsed upon them by the re-
bells, Is being considered by the Government at Wash
ingtoa and will sool be made known. The question,
10 doubt; i kr0'ty one. TIE outrages threatened
BY the rebds are Simply variety Of deaths-Such
- tb hi, nj
protect neges caught the field Of battle from these
HConvenis ces will be- the Yankees seem to suspect
not ~ III stteT. Common could point out two
admirable modes Of protecton-disbanding the regi-
ntuY or putting we'll of white regiments before them.
B what has the AbOitiOnis 70 do with COMMON sense
rejection in time Of battle white black is and
always will be- question worthy of the most anxious
consideration; but the Government at Washington
the best the world saw" the world well knows
lever bothered it, brains about the iormer-the
whites-e1cels to ailoE them she privilege Of buying
with their money many bulletproOt Waistcoats
- they could pay for. Such Government, whatever
it may be in other respects is unnatura inconsiderate
Of the ng question Of protecting lives and the So
cia standing of the AnglOsl1On the German and the
ltishman. 1t has consideration for anything but it.
self and the nisgcr
Tue account IRON which the texts to the foregoing
remarks taken, concludes strangely enough with
au exceedingly orcibe commentary on the considera.
ton bestowed by the people, not the Government at
Wa hington-whOse exalted humanity is the theme Of
praise in both hemEpheres-on the "outrages THREAT
sas to be prac,ised by the rebels" Says the accouut
There uas been oaother riot between black aud
white labor il the North, The white labOrers employed
by the NeN York aud Erie railroad having struck for
higher wages black labOrers put in their places
As soon this DONE the whites made an attack on
the blacks driving and beating them in & most terrible
manner remaining OF the ned aud putting the
jar%ies completely to fight"
This then, not the first riot between white and
black labor The negroes beaten in the most ter
riL!e manner aud put completely to fight, simply be-
cause they attempted to bread and meat enough
70 ward OIL the starvation that impends o~er so many
of them. Who will "protecp the negro from these
outrcges no, threatened to be pr4ctsei by rebels"
but actually inf oted by clled friends aud ibsrators
WIZ the Government at Washington" so much as
a consider" this Question ?"
DovEsrrc NOLAssEs.-We have been favored with
specimen OF MollSses mad, from Sorghum or the Chi
re Sugar Cane BIZ Mr. c. on his Brunswick Manhattan