North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-05-20
TUNKHANNOCK, PA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 90 1868
which | also read /:

al! been knocked into virtuous indignation BY
my announcement that Gen. Hooker was
| about fighting insurrection with insurrection,
by tending powerful expedition into the in
terion of one of the States comprised in his
| department, IN order to induce the slave pop
ulation to rise in arms against their oppress-
| ors. Well, what do their hypocritical pleas,
| in the name of bogus humanity amount to
fhe deed is done. That silly and sanguinary
hoax, has, before this, proved to the rebels
dire reality. Colonels Higginson and Mont
gomery, at the head of 1000 well armed,
drilled and disciplined blacks, and with mus
ket enough to arm several thousand more,
after landing at Fernandina astended the ST.
Mary's river on Monday last, and, have rea-
son to believe, are at this time far from the
coast, upon Georgia soil. Whine away, then
spurious humanitarians, at the accomplished
fact, instead of denying the existence of the
purpose"
| And the next news we may hear wilt be,
| the wall cf violated women and affrighted
children shrieking in terror as Hgginson and
his Sepoys, conveyed by the gunboats pursue
their career Of outrage up the St. Mary's and
the Leagues will applaud.
Conquest and subiugation are grand words
magic phrases-5ut let us for moment
look at them little closely-uot Rhetorical
! ly, but practically-with a common sense in.
| terpretation. We have some analogies 10
guide u.s. We know what is done with the
smaH patches of Territory we already have,
and we have a rgiht to infer, when the great
| conquest is consummated, that what is doing
at St. Louis, and Nashville, and New Orleans,
and Port Royal, and Norfolk, is to be done
through the whole of that vast region ex,
tending from our anxious pickets on the Rap
pahaDnock to the tranquil anchor age of the
gunboats at Hilton Head. There is to be
great military tenure with negro regiments
supported by regular troops" keeping the
peace, collecting the crops and the taxes, and
experimenting the electIons-the negroes
| having the rights of freemen, to vote and to
be voted for. Negro overseers are to admin
i0'SA o'oSipiihO Oh pid anu negro
women are to have the white women of the
South-gentte matrons and pure virgins-to
do their menal work. This is no fancy sketch
| have heard of the wish being express ed and
the penalty suggested in this city. This is
another of the realities | don't like to look at
And all this under the unchecked control of
the General Government at Washington-Mr
Lincoln and his Cabinet doing and superin-
tending all this by virtue of the war power.
The power of the East India Company was
nothing in comparison with this though the
relation OF that great semi-military corpora
tion to its conquered Hindoos, with it's enlist.
ed and depen dent Sepoys, is not unlike that
which, as a matter Of necessity, will'exist be
tween the Government at Washington and
he subJugated South, with its emancipated
and uniformed blacks. Nor is this new
idea. II originated long ago, and not with me,
| Mean this new mode of recruiting our
army with Sepoys, and | am glad of the o2-
portunity Of giving credit for it where it be-
longs.
During the canvass which resulted in Mr..
Lincon,s election, there were some very re-
markable speeches made, the memory of which
1t is now not very convenient to retain.
even though facts are verifying them.
Among them, Of course, was Mr. Lincoln's
that nation could not be part free, and slave
which, in more ways than one he is doing his
best to yeryfy. But there were others from
! men who were supposed to measure their
words more accurately. Two will recall.
Senator Seward spoke at Lansing, in Michl
gan, iu Octobe GO; and' then it was, he ut
tered and emphasized the remarkable opinion
that the Army and Navy ofthe United States
the regular Army-was a nuisance, de-
formity, an excrcscense, that ought to be got
rid of. This is literally true. That army, that
protected Seward in his snug office at Wash
iDgton, to be cut down, reduced; disbanded. be
cause said he, "t had oynly been nsed to pro-
tect slavery and capture fugitives" This was
bad enough. But the compliment of the sug-
gestion is to be found in another speech made
T..
Francis ?. Blair-then a member of Congress
now, a Major-General by Mr.. Lincoln,s ap-
pointment. and brother OF Mr.. Lincoln,s Post
master-General. Adopting the idea of getting
rid of the regular army, he proposed a substi-
tute' and suggested that the regulars-the
enlisted soldiers-hereafter should be found
in the emancpated negroes of the South In
other words he recommended Sepoy Army.
And this, to, is being verified. Gentlemen
can recall the horror with which l read this
Infamous suggestion at the time it was made
1t has not abated yet. l had just returned
from regions where this mode ofimercenary
employment of an allen race-alen in color
in passions, in instinct, in intellgence-had
brought forth its natural fruits. left Amer
lea for the far ives: in the summer of 1858.
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