Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-12-24
The Negro Troops.

Inc blame lies upon the Administration
and the Republican party--first, for causing the
Tr al all; second, for investing it with its
present features of ferocity third, for pre-
venting medicines being sent to the South
and fourth, for conducting the war in such a
manner as to prolong it. In the mean time,
fifteen thousand of our brave men, who left
comfortable homes and happy families in or
der to fight, as they supposed, for the Union.
are now languishing in Southern prisons, and
there they will continue to languish. Whyf
Simply because the Administration is deter
mined to adhere to its pet measure of making
negro as good as q ghae man. In order to in
dulge the whims of Greeley and Sumner on
this point, those brave men will be left to
languish and die by inches fretting their
lives away day by day, in hopeless agony at
the thought that the sight of home and kim
dred and their best loved ones will never
aSain be theirs.-C Chicago Times.
This is the language Of a Copper
head only but he is doubtless one in
intimate relations with and drawing
his inspiration from welI.informed
traitors at Washington who do not
even pretend to be loyal except to
jeff. Davis. They know that the reb.
el chiefs mean to kill or enslave all
the officers or privates Of black regi-
ments they capture ; and he thinks
he can afford to go to the country on
the issue which he characterizes as
an attempt at making a negro as
good as white man" We utterly
repel the slander. We hold every he.
gro who loyalty enlists under and
bravely fights for the Stars and Stripes
not merely as good as !" but great
deal better than any traitor on the
the continent, whether he openly wears
the livery Of JEFF. Davis or sneakingly
serves him as a writer on the Chicago
Times. And the white man who
would let negro go to fight for the
Union instead of going himself, and
then seek to have that negro soldier
abandoned by our Government to reb-
ell enslavement or murder, is baser,
more shameless villain than any out
spoken rebel we'll can be. 4 soldier
in the field has a show of right to OBJ
ject to negro regiments but he who
stays at home has none. If it is to
be deplored that negroes arc called
into the national service, the whites
who don't enlist are wholly in fault.
Even Copperheads comprehend that
blacks are as good as whites-to kill F!
The fact that four regiments are bet
ter than two, although two of them
are darker skin than the remainder,
has become apparent to the least mill
tary mind. We had the Emancipation
Proclamation, but, unfortunately for
Democratic candidates, We did not
have the accompanying and legiti-
mate horrors. The freemen proved to
be uncommonly well-disposed and
manageable and moderate, and al
though every one Of them who fought
knew that there was no quarter for
him, he exhibited no more than the usu-
al soldiery ferocity. lie did not shrink
from death, and he was found amena-
bic to discipline.
| The facts aud experiences, and our
dire necessities, have brought us to
reason, as those who, this winter,
read the newspapers will hardly deny.
We have passed from tremuloas theo-
rizing into a practice which, if it be a
little timid, is sufficiently decisive.
Col. Higginson's Black Regiment has
already won distinguished honors.
, Col. Shaw's men behaved admirably
under a Calling fire. and in close en-
/; counter. Mr.. Hepworth bears testi
: mony to the steadness and fidelity
: of the colored troops in Louisiana
}. Gen. Gilmore puts those under his
: command upon footing Of pefec
equality with the whites, and directs