New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-28

public gaze by the irritable fancy of the ipcor.
ruptble patriots who edit their uubousbt
opinions in such disinterested journals az. for
instance, The World. The fantastic ferocity
Of those COpperbead Caucasians was unequaled
by any previous exhibition, and their distres.
was only slightly mitigated by the absolute ia.
credulity as to the whole account which !.
the midst of their widest rhetorical excesssa
they obstinately affected. .....
In view of the latest accounts from this az.
petition, any paper but The World might have
the grace to be little ashamed Of its mid.
winter madness, but though shame or remous
are supposed to be the attendants on q quilts
conscience, they do not abide where the con.
science is totally wanting. Nevertheless Tn
WOrtd is invited to look at the facts.
The First and Second South Carolina Vol.
unteers under Coils. Higginson end Montgomery
have ascended the st. Johns River in Floriis
as far as Jacksonville, and have reoccupi
that important town which was once befc
taken and aiterward abandoned by the Uni4
forces Many Of the negroes composing thsss
regiments had been slaves in this very place.
Their memory of old wrongs, Of the privations,
outrages, and tortures of Slavery must here i
anywhere have been fresh and vivid, and The
passions which opportunity for just reveugs
stimulates even in white breasts, ought to hays
been reused more than in all other places u
the spot where they had suffered.
If then Jacksonville were to-day in ashes
and the ghasty spirit.visions of The World mo
terazed into terrible realities, the Negro
haters would have had no cause to be disap.
ponted The thinIy disguised exultatiOn viii
which The World hailed the alleged repulse and
massacre of the negroes and white Oficers-a
report which it invented outright in sheer ma.
llgnity. in order 10 fOrestall public opinion b.
creating belief in the failure Of the exped',
,ou--would have changed into agonized shrieha
over the outrages on its Southern brethren.
The experiment of subjecting negroes to military
rules, and accustoming them to those amenities
Of civilized warfare which the Rebels so uni
lo;miy practice would again have been declared
TO De a hopeless failure, and for the hundredA
time the Proclamation and the Radicals whs
advised it would have been pillOried for public
execration.
Since, however, the contrary Of all this d
true, it may be presumed by cOnfdng public
which docs not read it that The WorId has
honestly acknowledged the injustice Of its Sian
ders. 1t is unpleasant to disabuse confdiH
public on any subject, but We who are some
times obliged to look at that paper as profes
siona duty regret to say that we have moi
discovered single evidence Of it's repentance.
10 state facts is no part of its editorial pur'
pose. The facts are, however, that Cd. His
glnsons men landed quietly at Jacksonville
marched through its streets In perlect ofdet
committed no outrages or excuses OF any kna
and By the testimony of all witnesses, COZ
Quoted themselves with q military decorum aN
perfect discipline which is far from commH
among white regiments in similar circus
stances. They have gone before this time stu
further into the Interior and will doubtless y
good service in direction where their p'csenN
has been least expected py Inc hoVo's' Al ""
ONLY instance in which the white chiyaly vcr
tured to make stand against them. thewhisa
were defeated and driven OF the field BY Nc
blacks
The truth is that the fitness Of Negroes 70 81
soldiers has long since in this county aas'
elsewhere, been amply demonstrated, aid tns
success of Col. IIgginson's black troops
no matter of surprise to any person tolers
by well informed about the history oil ~
race. II :. we're in oay sense on experiment
tue only thing to be tested was the ob'tlnacJ
Of our Saxon prejudice which denied the pos
sibility of success, and did what it could
prevent il. But even Saxon prejudice mus
shortly yield to the logic Of facts.