The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06
BY order of the Secretary of War.
E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General,
Adjutant General Thomas, Negro I'm
liStme0t Farce.
From be Chicago Times.


From be Chicago Times.
There have been some farces of the first
water enacted during the progress of this
war, but there have been none so utterly alb
surd and ridiculous-noue SO destitute of the
slightest result--as the mission of Adiutant
General Thomas for the enlistment of negro
soldiers in the South west. We have been
amused at the venerable prattle of his print
ed record, and have labored hard to ascer-
tain from it that be ever procured the en-
! listment of single negro soldier. 1t does
not appear from his own words that he did,
but we are charitable enough to suppose
that he got few, for it could not well hap
pen otherwise. He "organized" twenty
regiments. that is. he appointed white Off
GERS for that number of regim ents, all of
whom are doubtless clamerous at the pres
ent moment for their pay. He gave them
carte blanche to enlist their recruits from the
African immigration to our lines, and sue
ceeded so we'll that there are now nearly
privstes enough to cook the officers victuals.
Without fear of contradiction, we assert
that Adjutant General Thomas representa-
tions regarding the enlistm ent of large re-
gro military force are simply bosh and non
sense. He can not designate as his handi-
work single regiment of negroes on the
Mississippi River and from Cairo to Vcks-
burg he can not show five hundred able
bodied black soldiers. Knowing the facts,
we speak thus confidently. He failed to
arouse the slightest disposition on the part of
the negroes to become soldiers, and the ma
iority Of those who were armed and uni
formed were compelled to it like cattle; and
their military duties. both past and pros
pective, are confined to that species of drill
which is best developed in the use of the
fryiDg-pan and curry-comb. In no instance
during his trip did this ancient apostle of
negroism witness the actual enlistment of
negro soldier, and we will confidently assert
that so far as his personal knowledge of the
fact goes, he is entirely ignorant of the ex-
istence OF such a thing. He gabbled and
gossiped his way up and down the river, and
may have deluded his own feeble intellect
into the belief that he left an army of ne
groes behind him, but he never was more
NJ istaken in his life.
The complete failure which marked his |
attempt at the creation of a negro army was |
not more decisive, however, than the ruin |
which befell his other schemes for the Gull |
tiVation of sixty plantations by runaway ne
groes. Three plantations, abandoned by |
their owners, were seizsd by his order and |
placed in the hands of Northern men, who |
stipulated to employ the negroes in the Gull
iVation of cotton. The result was such as
any body but the Adjutant General would
have anticipated. The negroes refused to
york, because they were not allowed to be
whipped. They stole every thing their new
masters possessed, and. to cap the climax,
he guerrilla swept the experimental plan
atoms so clean that, except in a very few
instances, neither negroes nor planters have
yer been heard of since. 1t was wise
hing to set up such mark for rAnsackipg
If it was to be the last piece of
Mischief they ever did, they would pay their
'articnlar respects to such an enterprise.