Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-10-29
From the Richmond Mhir
Tho Negro EengsES

Tho TssrO GENESIS.
Ia one OF his letters, attempting to Justify his
Emancipation Proclamation and the use Of negro
troops the President OF the Yankees uses the following
anguage:
:. But negroS, like oker people, act upon motges.-
Why should they do anything for as if We will de nothing
fer then If they stake their lives for they DO
prompted by the strongest motives the promise Of
freedom"
1t is needless to say anything absut the violation OF
the Federal Constitution involved in the Em2ucpa-
ton Proclamation; neither Lincoln nsr his subjects
care anything about that:-nor the violation OF hu
manity in the OF slaves against their masters and
mstresscs nobody now looks for humanity at the hands
CT SO brutal an adversary. But the language of Lin.
coin suggests possibility which might well have made
his hand trsmble while pennng these words and vii =
may yet make the whole rufianly race ever W. ca fa
rules quake with dread. Lincoln proclaimed cmsu-j-
patton, and began elisng negro troops with the hoc
OF 50 appalling with the fear of servi9 issurrcea
as 10 drive Us to accept the alternative OF subm ION
We did not believe that domestic3 could be excited
10 the diab0lca work be Intended them to do aud C
determined to stand the hazard We Judged aud acted
wisely But EncoIn's idea that the negro race acted
upon and Influenced by such stimulans as und some
circumstances, may be applied, would be c9plbl4 Cl
deeds at which the civilized world wood shudIer WIS
trae enough. He was only mistaken ia thinking lie
had it in hs power to apply those stimuants and that
the people who resisting him could be nude T.
victims of the atrocities he neditated. Even tI.
powerful motive" he mentions, "tho promise Of rc
dom," could not be supplied by him, because The
which enables them to "stake their veo for the Yam
KEGS are already as free he can make them. Ilty
have, therefore, no motive to fight. But with tc
more than taree millions that remain in slavery AID
subject to- be disposed Of their ma. grs think Dr0u
the matter is very different. The promise OF freedom
would not be to them empty and suparluCus oil T.
\ or would that imagined boon be the only incant.u
that could be furnished TO induce them 10 stake tbcr
lives Tor their mas g or for the still stronger mglYa
OF graft yiug usts and passions, the fierce frs uf
llp nat Una.
make thtm demons 81 distractions, the very ens3aEe.
OF tell to the Yankee race.
This fearful possibility has not escaped the at'cl-
ton Of a writer Tor the London Herald who dat l,
New York. That writer says:
Let Mr. Davis arm 100 900 or ESQ., OOO and march h,
North-te them that in New York the banks are iu
well as have good time generally when they
Yok or Philadelphia; and will wager my head that H,.
frethroush w ashIugton and Baltimore Still am afrtI
there is no man IN the South equal to the gsncy
that of the President of the North has The power UNI
til the 4th of March, 1865, and if he is as shrewd
II Cromver Jackson were alive, he would pray b.
fore his whole ard ask Heavenly advice and it veal
be given uDquestiopably-'Arm the slaves and ma, a
them North in immense and unconquerabe bodies. Tie
panic would be fearful It is difficult get soldo-4
When the that General had been reinforced
by 100 COO slaves, and that he driving North the
panic would be so universal that rot soldier Of the
QUO would go back to Washington, inc Irsou Voc
De 80 dreadful that the most ckng barbarIsm Of
snsS w0asa De Daoy play compared to it. OF cou'e
to be carried ont. The North would man; lii.
coin would be hurled from power, be told to say to ~
South, as the Egyptians said the Israess Co ye sni
leave ns to peace"
Fortunately for tie reputation and character of the
Confederate StateS-forunately for the credit OF the
age in which we live and more fortunate than either
Tor the Yankee race, have scarcely had occasion yet
to think OF the possibility of being forced at
uture day to turn loose among our enemies 80 terrible
al element OF destruction Thus far have been abb
to defend ourselves without resortng to unrecog
nizad by the code of civilized war and unjustfed b.
humanity We confidently expect 30 to be able to the
end. But it is well enough for the enemy to know that
we do not mean to be conquered, anu that if it should
become necessary to from such fate there is
no power of earth or the regions below that we would
not invoke and hurl against them, though it should
mlte their race with humiliation and sink their whole
lccursed land beneath sea of blood. Let them not
ielude themselves with the idea that do not know
'ur power; that we do not understand the potencyo
means more destructive than aVenging Furies in our
land nor is it safe for them to conclude that there