The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-07
SanrbO as n Soldier.
The Richmond Examiner has an
articA on Thad. Stevens Bill to arm

the negroes:
"What confession is here, Tex
claims the EditorD More than TWEEN
tv millions of white people, educated
highly in common schools, accustom-
ed from childhood to those practical
exercises by which the wits are sup
posel to be sharpened and the body
iuyigorated, aud priding themselves
upon their endowmentS, make war
npon less than onc-third their num-
Der of semi-barbarian SoutheTners,
slothfnl, ignorant, enervated, dcpra-
we'd: and after two years Of war, such
as no people ever waged and none
ever endured $50 vast in lis magnI-
tude and so vehement and malignant
its euergy,) the stronger power is
forced by the stern necessity OF con-
staut defeat and the inherent wicked
ness Of the caUSc 10 appeal from ITS
own race to African slaves Tor help.
How shameful the admission OF weak
neSs-how ridiculous the appeal for
aid. Three hundred thousand white
men. trained III all the arts OF mo-
dcrn warfare, throw down their arms
in disgust in may, and their places
are to be filled with negroes, who
scarcely know the mnzze from the
butt of a muSket, and who, there is
every reason to believe, can never be
taught the simplest evoIutions of the
line. Could the absurd folly of the
abolition crusade be more glarlngly
manifest than in this preposterous
substitution Of muscle for mind, IL
norance for education, inpXperence
for training, clumsiness for skill,
childiShneSs for manhood, cowardlce
for courage, blind brute ;nrce for pa
triotism and reason, Africans for An
glo-Saxnns 1t is the insanity of IA
uatici<m whipped, beaten, driven to
desperation. | is the last frantic,
furious, useless struggle of bad men,
bewiIdered by the breaking down OF
an unrighteons cause: in a word, IT
is the arraut idiocy of hopeleSsly de-
teated Siniulness. i; =
The fate Of the negro, Of the white
population at the Sonth and of the
Northern army respectively, will be
decided in brief contest. which will
occur about the middle of next June,
and which we will describe as grave
" and succintlv as possible: On the
LIST of April fifty thousand negroes,
who have been previously drilled in
various camps of instruction, will be
debarked at Aqua Creek. Pugna-
cious Joseph Hooker, toaming at the
mouth from long delay, will organ
ize them into hrigades and divisions,
with the velocity of frenzled lmpa-
thence. But it will reqnire SIX weeks
of incessant toll to perform this sim
pie feat. 1t is at last accomplished.
The pontoons are laid safely and
crossed without opposition. 10 rre-
vent accident the grand colored dlvi-
sion is put in the van Greeley, its
commander, remains at Aqua Creek,
Z" with a powerful glass, after the
manner Of Burnside. The Skrmlsh-
ers of the grand colored division are
thrown out. They deploy.
The voice of an orerseer calling
hogs is heard in distant field
They rally on the reserve. No re-
bells being visible, they are again
thrown forward. They feel for the
enemy but he is not to be felt. They
fire at nothing, fifty feet in the air,
and hit it every time. The rebels
being thus driven to their earth
works, the grand cnlored division adj
vauces at the pas de CHARGE, singlng
Methodist refrain, to storm the en-
emy's position and to g carry the
crest at all hazards. OF a sudden.
tn. artillery Of A. P. Hills COM
mana belches fo,ta hurricane OF
shell and sharpnel. There is ris.
ing of wool, as Of 'quiIIs upon the
fretfnl porcupine, under the caps OF
dusty brigadiers and sooty major
generals; there is simultaneous et-
fusion of nellihuous Precipitation
from fifty thousand tarry hides
there is display Of ivory like fifty
thousand flashes Of lightning; fifty
thousand pairs of charcoal knees are
knocking together, and one hundred
thousand Ethiopian eyeballs are roll
ling madly in their sockets, like so
many drunken and distracted moous
dancing in an eboa sky. The grand
colored division trembles like a
mighty pointer dog on an icy pave
ment-there is an universal SqnaII,
as if ali Africa had been kicked up
on its skins, and at the seli-same mo
ment scattering, as il all the black
birds, crows aud buzzards in creation
had taken wings atonce. Toa man
the Northern army lays PROSTATE in
the field, asrhhyxiated by the insun-
derable odor bequeathed to the at
mosphere by the dark departed host.
For a like cause the rebel army is in
full retreat to Richmond. Solitary
aud alone, with his nose in his hand,
\. P. Hill surveys the silent scene.