The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-08-19

leu leliOWS, loving anu tTustillS 'h0H hS
ters, and ready to follow them up to the
mouths of your cannon tahl do not continue
to befool yourself on that question of ties),
can be enrolled armed, drilled, in three
months. They can be differed in every
grade by their masters, those who have seen
most service, ard won most honor. They
can be segregated, regiment by regiment,
with the white troops. In all the depart
ments, the quartermasters, the commissa.
riar and the medical, white officers can ad>
minister for them. Superior commands in
the black regiments can be made the need
OF gallant service in the white. In fine, the
entire system, as it operates IN the SepoY
service in India, and as it has been modified
by Distinguishing British officers at the re-
quest OF our Government to meet the pecu'
liarities which constitute incalculable adVan-
tages, presenting, as they do; love and conf
dence in place OF hate and jealousy and sus.
picion-can put in working order at once.
This is what tell you can be DONE
This is what the Vice President Of the Con.
ederate States came to tell you n0'H certain
ly be done forthwith. Will you tell your
people this?
1t is not for me to speculate upon the
consequences OF these new and dreadful ele>
ments, whIrled into new forms Of conflict
and complication, to prolong and intensity
the war. My mind. in striving to grasp the
subject, let's 60 It's hold, and shrink as from
something at once terrible and loathsome -
cannot speak of things which Seem to cry
aloud out Of the future with the tongues OF
women and babes, with the contention. OF
angels and Of fends OF pity and fury.
But do ace in all this hidden mine OF
power in the South which your policy may
in one fatal moment spring upon the coun.
try, to bury all we once loved and were
proud Of in an undistinguishable monstrosity
OF disgust and death.
RANDOLPH
1t will surprise the reader, doubt
less, how came to be admitted into
the columns of the Tribune anything
teeming with the genuine humanity of
this letter. 1t is surprising. 1t will
be gratifying, no doubt, to hear what
Greeley had to say about it. Of course
it would not be published without ed
itorial comments. II. G. admits that
"it will be read with profound and
general interest,"" and thus explains
this reception Of this remarkable let>
ter:''
awe must premise that though dated
Richmond, July 16, we have received it
thro,uh n Rolt;r,ora Caoauc;on nbaopaI and
We have no doubt that it rece we'd form and
shape in the Monumental City. That its
statements and Representations, however. all
emanate from high Secession circles in Rich
mond, and that they embody and elucidate
the views that impelled the recent attempt
of Vice President Stephens to proceed on q
Confederate embassy to Washington, we
have ample reason to believe"
After a revolving course Interpreters
ton of the whole letter into a mere
announcement of an intention to en-
bark in the "negro arming business"
if WE do not abandon it, Mr.. Greeley
diabolically comments, that eff pris-
oners of war shall be executed on the
plea of retaliation or otherwise, it will
be markedly BECAUSE THE CoNFEDER-
ATEs DENY TO UNIoNIsTs IMMUNITIEs
THAT WE FREELY concede to Rebels
And if executions shall thus be rem
dered necessary, the precious blood so
shed will weigh heavily on the souls of
the master spirits of the Shareholders
Rebellion"
Negroes are the Unionists here spo-
ken of, of course; negroes are placed
on an equality with anybody in the U.
S. service.
A dislike to many things done by
the rebels such as beating us in
numerous battles, offering their az
mics with men educated at West Point,
&C., is coolly proposed as an offset to
the "Rebels'" dislike of our arming
slaves. Then the right of the Rebels
to retaliate by arming their slaves is
admitted-but it is insisted that by
arming them they must free them-and
if with the assistance of free negroes
they even whip the North, they will
have gained nothing really, for then
with negroes all free, our Union again
| is certainty, argues Mr.. Greeley
He then decides that "the Confederates
then, will NOT arm their slaves, be-
cause that would insure their defeat
and overthrow in one way or another
II they arm those slaves without free
ing them, they will bring their mus,
kets over to our camps as fast as pos,
sible; if they arm and free them, that
will render certain the restoration Of
the Union, whether they succeed OF
fall" He concludes with hypocriti
cal appeal to the Confederates to "giy'
it up "In plain words, the Rebel
lion has failed; persistence in it cal
largely increase the sum of carnage
devastation, and wretchedness, bu
that is all. We exhort you to lool
the facts in the face-to bow to thu
fat of Heaven, admit that the Unior
cannot be destroyed, act on the basis
of stern realizes, and let this distrac