Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-02-20

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Gen. eeigsr on the use Sf the Negro in Crushing
The following is an extract from recent
speech Of Gen. JosEPH lGEroER, well known
during the late Presidential campaign as
Democratic stumper in this State:
This extraordinary seusitveness az to the
employment Of negroes, I. as loyal man can
not understand. That it will shock the south
il evident; they are a shocking people, and
raise their hands in horror over orif employ
mcnt Of the same means they use. If slaves
can be engaged to break down our laws and
I institution, certainly they can be to main
tain ihcm, The traiiMF use them to raise
heir produce. bnd th5ir Qualifications, man
their cannun, and fight in the field so farhs
lhey dare with safety to themselves bat our
government is denounced as unchristian IN
preserving its life by The same Instrumental
ties. The end sanctilies the means. and am
not particular about the agencies which ex-
linguish traitors who murder our people
SelEprcservution demands that the vitals of
the rebellion be rearhed and curshed, and il
negroes can do it better than white men, or in
any way aid in doing it-euplOy them. We,
not the South, are TO judge Of our ap-
p'inncss TO punish the guilty. II limbs are to
be mingled and lives sacrificed in battle, am
just as willing that they should belong to ne
groes as to loyal whites I am willing to use
il dog TO kill skunk and ] am willing to use
a negro TO kill a traitor. I have more re-
Spect for negro than a traitor, and in a coz
tr0versy between them bid the negro :, tiod
speed" would rather trust loyal man
With a black face than white man with
back heart. I honor a negro more who
strikes for the coaptry's welfare and sIays rs
foe, tAan lie bastard who slaughtered our cit
zeas TO upturn The Constitution. The one
giles Tor county in which be has had bat
few rights, and the other against the Govern
ment which has given and protected him in
everything. In battle it is perfectly csti-
ma'e tG use horse to ride rough-sHod over
he field, to trample upon the bones, and crush
out the hearts and hrains of men, or to use
iron grape TO NOW down hostile columns, e.
rams to sink the vessels Of and drown our enc
nies; yet you dare not use negro for the
same parpo+e. a negro. is better than a
horse, and certainly in creation superior 10
the metal dug from the earth. Gen JaclAon
used them TO kill the British, anashe would, if
living, iIistigate them TO murder JEFF Davis
and his miniOns. But these rebels Of the
South, and their allies here, wish to exempt
Il erlsevcs from the rules to which we are 81 b.
jec'. BY the mmon law WHICH is 10 force in
Ohio, if any man resists an officer in the per-
formance Of his duty, that eficth calls the
posse nit Us to his aid. II you or resist
him. he calls upon all around TO assist him In
nnr arrest white as well as black must re-
spoHd and If black man refuses to aid him Ia
talli.g us, he is pun she'd. The negro dare not
refuse, or he will be imprisoned, and that ne
gro has the right to use all the force necessary !,
to support the officer, even to the taking OF
orr lives, and ir he thus kills US, be is not an
swerable, for it is "jlstiilbIe hemicide"-
Now, am not willing to concede that trait
or in South Carolina is any better than
loyal man in Ohio. | cannot agree fiat ne
groes shall, by our laws, be compelled to cap.
ture us, while merely resisting an officer, and
not be proper instrumentality to aid in ru'-
ting down a rebellion, which strikes at tue
honor, the laws, The Constitution, and the life
of the country. / cannot ignore my man
hood, by admitting that negroes are fit to
force us in'o obedience. but not suitable to
put down traitors and he who can has weak
Eead Or a rotten heart The fact is that the
men who are so averse 10 employing all ne
cessary means to crushing the rebellion, are
generally anxious it should succeed, They dS
rot want TO see it extirplted under this Ad-
fiIinistration, but iniurialed by party madness.
would rather see the country driven pell-IReh
to desiruuion, than saved by the party now Ia
power The foundation of their opposition to
necessary means is rot humanity but ihfdeli-
tg, aud rigging hatred to everything outside
the Eilsely styled Democratic organization.