The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-08
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conquer treason we fight for result.
There is great end to be attained. The
end is so important that it is unwise for
patriots TO fall out about the mere means
and agencies TO be employed for its attain
ment. This would be like refusing to
make an indispensable journey, because
we could not travel on certain read;
VIC attach more importance to the road
than to the point Of destination.
1t is the duty of the President 10 use
such means as are adapted 10 suppress
the rebellion most speedily, and it
is the duty of the loyal people to sus-
tain him heartily in the use of those
means. 1t lisa settled point, which the
overwhelming testimony of facts renders
no longer debatable, that the Federal
Government can use the slaves of rebels
with powerful and terrible effect against
the rebellion. 1t is point no less clear
ly established, both by our own obser-
walton, and by the declarations Of the
Southern newspapers that the Richmond
Government has employed slaves with
great profit in prosecuting this wicked
rebellion, and that oil its provisions, and
and nearly all its military works are the
fruit Of slave labor
In employing slaves then against the
rebellion, we effect two highly dtsir-
able objects: We strengthen ourselves
with allies taken from the very heart Of
treason, which is the Cotton States, and
we weaken the rebels by taking from
them the great mass of their agricul
tural force, constituting largely over
one third of the population ofsthe Rich
mond Confederacy.
But says some constitutional caviller.
this policy Injuries loyal people.
SO does every other war measure; the
war cannot be prosecuteda day, by any
policy which will not do harm to loyal
people. II is necessary incide of
war that the innocent suffer with the
guilty.
But in this policy, you war against
women and children, rejoins the cAyil-
Ter.
Are not women and children after all,
the greatest sufferers in every war ? On
whom do all the Affections of war fall
half SO heavily, as upon widows and or
phans. This objection should be made
against Southern traitors TO add black
er shade TO their infamy, but not against
those who fight for the Republic.
Public sentiment has advanced with
astonishing rapidity since the beginning
of the war, in favor of using the slaves
of rebels and other negroes, but especi-
ally the former, as soldiers, seamen and
pioneers in the Federal service. No one
doubts now that the negro will fight,
and fight with desperation. Look at
Milliken's Bend, where the slaves turned
upon their periured and rebellious mas
tiers, and drove them like startled sheep
at the point of the bayOnet. The insa-
tiate, avaricious, and insolent rebel slave
ocracy must be broken up, and the long
suffering bondsmeR who have been the
patient sufferers of kicks, cuffs and
scourges for two hundred years, are hea-
ven's appointed instruments to assist in
the holy work. If rebel aristOcrats
throughout the Southern Confederacy,
can be surrounded with negroes. from
morning till night, we need not be fas-
tidious about taking these negroes wher-
ever we can, and using them against the
myrmidOns of JEFF. Davis
But demonstrates some indignant con-
stitutional patriot, "This is putting the
negro on level with the white SOL
dierw
The men of the Revolution were not
appalled, by any such apprehensions,
Oh, "MOst forcible Feeble"
WASHINGTON did not fear it; ANDREW
JACKSON did not dreadit. A oontempor-
airy makes the following penitent inquir-
les on this point and answers them his
torically and satisfactorily:
When Major Pitcairn of the British
marines leaped on the redoubt of Bun
ker Hill, shouting, "The day is ours" and
striking terror into the colonial troops,
who sealed those lips and laid the inya-
der in the dust Peter Salem, neg
70.
When the struggling colonies were
contending for American freedom at
Bunker Hill, who stood side by side
with our fathers? The negro.
For W hom did the principal officers
in that fight petition the General Court
for some special token of appro baton
describing him as "a brave and gallant
soldier" Salem Poor, a negro
Whom did Samuel Lawrence, of Gro
ton, one of our noble patriot ancestors
lead TO the fight of Bunker HuIq A
company Of negroes.
What Southern State in l775 passed
an order for enrolling slaves as military
laborers? South Carolina.
Who first promised freedom TO all
slaves who would join the British army ?
A British nObleman, Lord Dunmore.
Governor Of Virginia.
Was the proclamation of Lord Dun
more brutum fIlmen9 1t aroused the
whole colony, and led the masters TO
promise freedom 10 every slave who could