The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-12
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We said some weeks ago that the cop
perhead- IN conditional pro-slavery men
were the real negro wOrshippers. They
would drive white laborers out OF the
country by introducing an army of slaves
They would ruin all other classes
to protect and enrich the slAvehOldeT.
All non stockholders are super1uitiss, and
excrescences on the body Of slave society,
and the STAKEHOLDER is the only "legiti-
mate citizen" While the army destroys
cattle, hogs, grain, meat, fences,
forests, and even houses, these negro
worshippers have nothing to say butso
soon as ii seizes a slave, who is plough
ing in the field, for the benefit OF the
Confederate army, they raise yell OF
Indignation and wrath. They are will
ling that white men shall be marched
into the battle field, TO face the rebels,
and have no sympathy to express for
the white soldier, but they grow iRdig-
nant at the suggestion that the negroes
should be suffered to fight against the
armies of JEFF. Davis; and we find that
although they have no feeling Of COM
passion for the white soldier, they are
wonderfully tender towards the black
man. A remarkable illustration of this
feeling was given, the other day, by Gov
ernor Seymour, ofNew York. The Troy
IN. " Times says that "a committee of
colored men from that city waited upon
Gov. Seymour last week, and asked him
whether no would favor the organization
of regiments of black men. He replied
that he should not, saying that he had
too much sympathy for the blacks to do
so, as the position they must occupy would
be one of extreme danger, and would
lead TO dreadful and unnecessary sacri-
fee of life" r
Compassionate and considerate Gov
ernor The lives of our white soldiers
are risked and exposed daily. They are
marched up in front of flaming batteries
to almost certain death. They are or
dered to attack the powerful fortiflca-
tons of Charleston, Vicksburg and Port
Hudson, although the lives of thousands
must inevitably pay the forfeit. They
are exposed TO all the perils of the
march, the camp and hospital. They
are even dispatched on secret expeditions
as spies, although their arrest must in
evitably be followed by death on the
gallows. All these dangers must be en-
countered, and all these hazards be run
by the white soldier, the free born
American citizen, but the heart of Gov.
Seymour ia too compassionate to expose
the poor negro to such dreadful risks
The Louisville Democrat says;
Governor Seymour, of New York, is
certainly placing himself nearly in the
van of the conservative movement. His
course on the suspension of the haJeas
corpus act and arbitrary arrests, is already
sufficiently familiar with the public, but
he has not stopped at this. "a e6f
A number of ''colored men" applied
20 him az a committee, to ask his assis-
lance in the organization of black reg
iment. The Governor very peremptorily
declined, and is now being very hand
somely berated by the Black Republic
cans for it
The chief cause of quarrel is that
among other things he said that they
could not receive the protection of the
Government, and this has Of course
aroused indignation. 1t is, however, a
truth. If a regiment of blacks are seiz-
ed and handed over to the State authori-
ties, we are scarcely willing to see q
regiment of whites punished in like
manner, by retaliation and counter re-
taliatlon. Thus The negro soldier has
not the same protection that is extended
to the whites, and this the Republican
papers know, although they studiously
strive to conceal il.
The Governor appears to feel the alb
surdity of bis refusal, and he attempts TO
sustain it by reason which has no
foundation in fact. He ought to know
that the Government is pledged to give
its black soldiers the same protection
that it gives to its white ones, and; more
over that it has The poloer to enforce that
protection G1o u- a
The secret Of this opposition to the
employment of black soldiers, is the
knowledge that unless the enlistment be
speedily checked, very large proportion
of the able-bOdied laborers in the rebel
States, who are now raising breadstufIs
for the rebels, will be in the ranks of the
National Army, eager to fire at the head
of every traitor who may cross their path.
Which is better; TO allow the slaves TO
feed our enemies, or put bayonets in their
hands and tell them to prick the follow
ers of lsham G. Harris and JEFF. Davis in
the stomach ? "The negro where he il"
is, in nine cases out of ten, our adversary
by cOmpulsion. The negro where he
might be, would make the Southern re-
belliOn tumble to pieces in twelve months.
The New Orleans Ira of the End saws
an immense number of wagons, about
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