Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-07-10

army has traversed the South
they have found the politicians,
rich landholders and sIavehold-
ers, In secession and treason. We
find similar affiliations in the
North. Are these types of De-
mocracy? When our fathers
changed English doctrine of lie,
liberty and property, to life, lib
erty and the pursuit OF happiness,
they broke the aristocratic idol
OF property, and the loyalty of
the poor, though kept in compar-
alive ignorance in Western Vir-
gInia, Eastern Tennessee, North
ern Alabama, and throughout
the South, again instructs US that
'you cannot worship God and
Mammon."
Are our volunteers willing to
pass by the rich fields, harvests
and gangs Of slaves owned by
the holding traitor, and
know that the granaries gathered
by those slaves are to support the
armies Of the rebellion? Are
they TO toll on and witness the
ruin of the cabins and home
steads of the loyal poor of the
South, driven into the rebel ar
my, or exiled by a sweeping con-
scription over the white laborer,
and sparing the traitorous owner
of twenty slaves, and guard the
mansions and slaves of the
wealthy, to foster 1.-The Southern
rights" of rebellion Do they
not demand con6scation of the
property, including slaves of the
rebels, as due to their sufftrings
and perlls, and to their country's
cause e?
Confiscation was a necessity.
and all history and former
precedent sanction it. The cap
tured slave yet owes duty to the
country, and his condition re-
qulres control and subjection.-
Our volunteers should he spared
the drudgery of camps, exposure
to inhospltable climates and the
dangers OF the field. Do they
not require the services of the
negro for camp duty, building of
Notifications, bitches, bridges,
and all other drudging and expo
sure that the African, accustomed
to the climate and exposure, can
perform with less risk OF health
or life? Who would expose his
relation, friend or fellow citizen
to the hazards OF battle sooner
than a negro? Have the sympa-
thisers oil slavery become So fond
OF the negro as to expose the life
of the white freeman sooner than
their cherished chatteI-slave?-
Men have become so deluded
and estranged by party, that their
sympathies show out more
strongly Tor the chattel-negro thin
the free white man. Yet the
cutlery and rtproach of equality
is made. Is the negro subjected
to white managers and officers
in working parties: or in regi-
mental organizations, placed in
any social equality VITA the
whites OF other regiments AID
commands? Then Gen. Wash
ington in the revolution, and
Gen. Jackson, az New Orleans,
introduced negro equality, and
the precedent resulted in no harm
there, and we may from that feel
assured it will not now. More
than one hundred thousand OF
our fellow-citIzens have fallen in
sickness and in battle from this
war. The blood of those fallen
in battle vet stains the field
Tens of thousands more must
undoubtedly fall. Are we so
lost to sympathy for our patriot
volunteers, rs to be unwilling for
a negro to stand in their places
and fall in their stead?
Our farms and workshops are
requiring labor. Can not the
negro be placed in the field to
permit our men to return home ?
The demands of the war required
a draft to equallze the drain for
the service and supply the void
of the expired term OF service
While the cutlery goes iOrth that
New England and Eastern States
have not furnished their proper
quotas, the Conscript law is con-
demned, although it equalizes
the quotas. While the Conscript
law is resisted, the organization
Of negro regiments to spare It's
execution is bitterly condemned
An overwhelming love Of Con
stitution and law is protested
and the law to fill the ranks OF
the army resisted to the murder
of officers appointed to enroll un-
der il. The laws of the land
must be executed. We required
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