The mountain Democrat., 1863-04-04
sffsnA and the Nrrrn.n

One member of the Beecher family,
saws tho Providence Post, has enriched
the phraseology of the American people
with the refined and pious ejaculation Of
"Bully Hallelujah !" Another scion Of
! the same stock has now favored US with a
new national slogan.
"God and the Negro" is the war-cry
which Henry Ward Beecher recommends
to the armies of the republic, through the
columns Of the Independent, in the fol-
lowing passage, which nothing butts sense
| of pphlic> duty cQuld induce US to quote
=, RC.SN,tAsiA 10 dispute over a BIZ! !H .E.:,
and equip 10000 negroes, TO serve i'll the war.
Let it stop the debate! The case is settled; the
problem is solved; the argument is done. Let
ihe recruiting sergeants beat their drums =
The next levy Of troops must not be made in
the North, but on the plantations. Marshal
them ihtO line by regiments aud brigades The
men that have picked cotton must now pick
Aints Gather Ithe great Third Army For
! tW yonSs Sae Government has been searching,
| In an enemy's country, for path to victory ;
only the negro can find il! Give him gunand
bayOnet, aud let him point the way! Tue tu-
ture is fair; God and the negro are to save the
republic!"
Ifthese brutal and blAsphCmous rawlings
reached our ears from Bedlam they would
be sufficiently shocking. But they arc
deliberately printed in paper professcdly
religious. They are intended to be read
in the homes of civilized and Christian
men. They are the creed Of a man call
| ing himself minister of love and of mcr.
cy; and mad rs they are, there is mean
method in their madness. This Sanguin-
ary ribaldry is the calculated voice of a
most slaviSh cowardice. Here is the ar
gumcnt Of this horrible cry:
1.-THE interval between the destruction and
the salvation Of the republic is measured by
two steps; one is emancipation, the other mill
tary success. The first is taken; the other de-
laws. How is il 10 be achieved! There is but
one answer by the negro!
"The negroes are the final reliance of the
Government. They are the iorlorn hope Of the
republic. They are the last safe keepers Of the
good cause. We must make alliance with
them, or our final success is impcriled."
We beg the reader to control for a mo-
mcnt his disgust and his Indignation, to
weigh these words coolly. to measure with
unimpassiOncd eye the abyss of dcgrada-
ton which they reveal. Three rude, ig-
norant millions of negroes are the 'forlorn
hope" Of twenty millions of civilized An
glo-Amcricans waging great war against
live millions OF their own race. Unless
we can scducc these African allies into
taking our guns and bayoncts and fighting
for US, we are hopclcssly beaten. We
have not the manhood to maintain our
own cauSr; and when We offer freedom to
the Southern slave, it is not because we
feel ourselves strong enough to give him
what we promise, but because We hope he
will be strong enough not only to secure
his own freedom, but to save US also from
defeat and shame. I, the man who writes
these things an American or Chinese
Are we Greeks Of the Lower Empire,
clamoring for tho help of black Naran-
gians, against the terrible hordes of Lee
and of jackson!
The negroes are not commonly reputcd
a very warlike race; but the mildeSt Congo
that ever summed himself among his pump
kinS, nigh: shrink in scorn from an "alli-
ance" with men whose philanthropy thus
shanIclcssly proclaims itself to be pol
trooncry in disguise.
With the soldiers and citizens of the
North this growing insult, offered by the
radicals to the American name and race,
may safely be left for redress.
Wherever MAN turks within the most
stolid armor of lanaticism, they must Ger,
tainly find him out and sting his spirit up
to some dim sense, at least, of the crisis
we have reached and Of the future which
threatens US.