The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-06

HNAt WAlA NhlAht hNbAV oVANiNA"i my ""
enlist them too, is the most n%Onsensical
OF all their absurdiiies. They dare not
do IL. The rebels inaugurated the re
bellion to strengthen, extend, and per-
p%etuate slavery, and for them TO train
their black cbattels 70 be soldiers, would
be downright suicide. A Richmond
correspondent says to the North;
81 remind you that the four millions
Of negroes that appear in the tables OF
your census for 1860 are the working
hands OF both sexes only. That num-
Der does not include the superannuateo
or the infants. Dat of these four
millions, az least seven hundred and
fifty thousand able bodied fellows,
'oving and trusting their masters, and ready
10 follow them up 10 the mouth of your can
non (ahl do not continue to befool your
self on that question of ties), can be
enrolled, armed, and drilled in three
months"
tits even asserted by a correspondent
Of the n. Y. Tribune, that the real pur-
pose Of Stephens intended, but batied
mission to President Lincoln, was to
deliver the same menace TO that officer.
Now, the rebels may be assured that
he Government means TO arm negroes
to put them down. 1t will shortly send
black troops into the cotton States by
hundreds of thousands, who will track
rowing guerrilla bands to their dens,
and literally exteTminate them. Our
shite tr ops can cope with the organized
armies of the rebellion very hands, mely,
but we need black soldiers, who are
familiar with every country road, by
path, and pig-track, among swamps, hills
aud thickets, to hunt down guerrillas an 4
Confederate highwaymen. The Union men
of Tennessee are nearly unanimously in
favor of fighting the devil with fire in this
respect. They are afdently in favor of
employing negro soldiers. The follow
ing list will give our misguided South
ern brethren" a faint idea Of what we
are doing in the way of raising negro
troops:
Two Massachusetts regiments in the
field.
Two South Carolina regiments, in The
field.
One North Carolina regiment, in the
field.
One Philadelphia regiment, reaiy for
service.
One Washington, D.. c., reg me.t, ready
for service.
One Kansas regiment, in the field.
Two New Orleans regiments, in the
field.
-Four Mississippi aud Tennessee reg
iments, in the field.
One Rhode Island artillery company,
in the field.
In all fourteen regiments and one bat
terry full, and either in or ready for act
i've service.
The following are being formed
One Philadelphia regiment, nearly half
full.
One Washington %. O. regiment,
nearly half full.
One Baltimore regiment.
One Virginia fortress Monroe) regi-
ment.
ono North Carolina (NOwbern) regi-
ment.
Oae Ohio Camp Delaware) regiment.
One New Orleans regiment.
Sixteen Mississippi and Tennessee
regiments.
In ell, organizing, and many of them
well advanced, % regiments.
And the cry is still they come. The
negroes in this department are eager to
enlist, and take to soldering as naturally
as a duck takes 60 water.
But the rebels threaten TO raise negro
soldiers too, do they? They DARE NOT.
They know It would DO their death
stroke. They know that, with hardly
an exception, tho slaves are the ancient,
inveterate, unrelenting, fierce, implacabls
foes of the rebel Oonfederacy, and Of the
abhorred system which for two centuries
has filed their cup with tears and blOed.
They fight for their Oppressors? They
dare death for the men who have sold
their daughters, debauched their wives,
and dashed them al the whipping post 4?
Why, a few favorites tried this expert
ment at New Orleans and in Nashville,
and they were forced to drop it; for
the alarm was sounded over the South,
that arms were being put into the hsnds
Of the slaves. Why, what says the ed
itor Of the Georgia Constitutionalist,"
upon the "ingratitude," as he styles il of
the Mississippi slAves2 Read
A sufferer by the Combahee raid sums
up his sorrows in the following SEN
tence: "What contributed most to my
modification was, that in my whole
gang of slaves, among whom there were
any amount of Aarons, Abrahams, Isaacs
and Jacobs, there was not one Abdiel-
not one remained loyal 10 the rebel
This is the complaint Of hundreds and
thousands of other sufferers. Tie most
petsd, trusted, and seemingly devoted slqyes
are found wanting inde hour of trial.
We have heard of a gentleman, not
long escaped from a northern prison
who returns TO his native land with An
animosity towards the Yankee which
language cannot express, and with a de-
termination TO submit to the yoke Of the
Hottontot in preference TO that Of Lin
coin. But 81 the same time he declared