The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-15

Sergeant JAsP pR Of Fort Moultrie, could
neither read Ror write, and the same Is
true Of thousands Of the best soldiers In
ell our wars. The rebel soldiers eight
we'll, and yet the training Of the great
mass OF them has been in no res.
pect better than chat Of the most ignor-
ant slaves. Probably not one third Of
the European soldiers a either read
or write, and, yet they are the veterans
of MArengo, AusterlitE, and Waterloo.
An experienced officer would hardly 90
to the offices Of professional men, or TO
College halls and lycsums, or to the par
lors Of fashionable society, TO procure the
best Fighters. He would much prefer
obtaining recruits among miners, woods
men, and boatmen, who possess a power
fal physical development and who
would not be laid on the shelf after a
few hours hard fighting.
Negroes are men, with the same pas
sions that white men possess, and like
them, will eight When impelled by sufa-
cient motives. They fight furiously,
when enraged with one another, and
even with all the terrors Of certain death,
and with no hope of escape whatever,
the criminal records of the Slave States
attest the fact that they not unfrequently
turn upon their masters. So great is
the fear Of instruction in The Slave
States, that in Virginia, "old John
Brown" with a band of twenty negroes,
threw all Virginia into q ferment Of ex-
element and terror for the space of six
months, and the whole SoHth stood
aghast at the thought that this raid Of q
| gray-haired enthusiast was the porten-
tous shadow Of a coming event. To re-
press the natural passions of the slaves,
and terrify them into submission, the
Slave States not only forbid them the
use Of arms, but have adopted o distinct
code for their punishment, remarkable
for its cruelty and bloodtbirstiness. If
the slave were the spiritless, timid being
that some would persuade US be is, no
such laws would be necessary. The
slaye-ownsrs would as soon think of a
sheep code or a chicken code, as a slave
code. Mono know so well as slave ow-
ners, that tho negroes in the Sou'b are
the red lava imprisoned in a l%Olcaoo, ca
ger to leap forth, and punish their OPP
pressors. Look at Port Hudson, MILF
ken's Bend and Helena, where the slaves
closed in upon their rebel masters, fought
them hand 90 hand, and drove them in
utter panic from the field.
Common sense also teaches us that the
slave in this contest is the natural friend
and ally Of the Republic. The negro is
shrewd enough to knew that the purpose
Of the Shareholders in rebelling was to
found q government Of their own, IN
travelled by abOlitionists, where they
might hold him, and his pOsterity for.
eUer, rs bondsmen. He knows that the
North hates slavery, and that the rebels
like IL. He has heard all his life, from
his masters wi lips that the Rboli.
t~ioDists wanted to set him free, and that
all Northern men were Abolitionists.
This was enough to mould his feelings.
When he ransway he tried TO escape to
the Free States, and now his sole desire
Is TO fight for the Free States. he has
heard of the Emancipation Proclamation,
and he longs to fight for his liberty. His
enemy is the enemy Of the nation; shall zoe
thin fight that enemy u he desires its
II is always advisable to weaken an
enemy. The negro is now the main
support Of de rebel army He is compelled
to raise meat aud b~readstuffs for the
Commlssary department He builds
forts, digs trenches, casts cannon, throws
up breastworks, drives leans, and
renders many other services in the army
which white men would have to do in
his absence. By apprcpriating the SER
vices Of the slaves to the use of tho
Government, we cut the sineWs Of the
rebellion.
The negro will make an aeelaNated SOL
dier. The returns Of the Medical Depart
ment of the Army, shows that in the Cot-
ton States the health of the negro troops is
much bstter than that Of the white
troops, Hence they are prominently
fitted to strike a blow at the vital point
Of the rebellion, which is the denss slave
settlements. If slavery be "the chief
Cornerstone Of the Southern Oonfed-
eraoy," let us sndermine il and blow il
TO atoms. II the shareholders ate fight
for the divine right of King Cotton, let
us dethrone him, tear Off his crown, and
divide his kingdom among loyal freemen,
and then the slave -Oligsrchy will have
neither q cause to fight about, nor
means 20 carry On the war.
Tho slave has presented to him. the
greatest motive ever offered 10 encourage
any human being to fight, and the no.
blest one that ever stirred the soul Of
man--As hops Of Gse6oss.
The moment that q slave becomes q
Federal soldier, his shackles fall from
bis limbs. and he becomes a freeman, Ii