The Placer herald., 1863-04-04

revolution; but remember that those were only
wholesale executions, under the forms of law and
the restraints of civil authority, discriminating
as to age, sex and condition and degrees of crime
and making speedy death the greatest punish
ment. The massacre of st. Domingo though
confined to small number of persons compare
lively. Is the chief horror of the present century.
That was n servle insurrcction; but it was vol
untary uprising of the negroes, not instigoted by
any white government. and the government
which would have had the shamelessncss to as
sumo the responsibility of having aided or en-.
couraged it, would have subjected itself to the
execration of all civilized nations. The Indian
massacre of few hundred men, women and chill
dren last summer in Minnesota, convulscd and
Mortified the nation; but in comparison to .he
system Of scrvile insurrectiOn being inaugurated
by our government, it was not u drop in the
bucket. 1t is proposed to put arms in the hands
of hundreds of thousands of ignorant brutal and
lustfu negroes pledge to them the protection OF
our government for any outragcs they may COM
nit, and give up to their unrestrained rapacity
and lust, millions of uuoffendng women and
children, with the fathers and husbands of whom
the nation is at war with the advantage over
them of two to one in men and means.
Every mind of ordinary sensibility shrinks
with horror from the contemplation of the scenes
of carnage, and brutal violence, infinitely worse
than death, which must inevitably follow this
authorized license to people governed only by
tuclI iistluCIS anu tulS, lO upou pcOplc
of own race, but recently our fellow, citizens and
bound to us by many kindred ties Think of the
the thousands of young, beautiful and accom-
plshed maidens subjected to the brutal lusts of
semi-savage negroes, the aged and nfirm the
young, innocent and helpless, slaughtered upon
their own hearhstones and their household gods
despoied for no fault of theirs, and only because
the rulers of their several States attempted to
chnge their relations to confederation which
had become irksome to them, and compelled their
constituents to take up arms in defense of that
right. Does any one suppose that the negroes
will make any discrimination between the loyal
and disloyal- al-bctween the families of combatants
and non-combatants? But it matters not; no
civilized nation makes war upon women chill
dren and non combatants Many of the destined
victims of this barbarOus warfare are connected
by the ties of kindred blood with the loyal citi-
zens of the government; can it be expected that
the laws of cOnsanguinity can be smOthered, and
that kindred blood will not cry ou. against this
monstrous wrong? Not that alone, but every
impulse of humanity every sentiment of the
higher civilization of christianity, will invoke
upon it the curse of God and the eXecration of
mankind. To consent to this infamous crime is
treason to our government and treason to our
race.
We yet hope that this is but an al clifton pro-
ject, got up by by some of the leaders without
the authority of the President. and that it will be
speedily disclaimed and arrested; but If it should
turn out to be an administration measure those
engaged in it forfeit by the act the obedience of
loyal citizens: they are no longer our rulers, but
outlaws and the common enemy Of mankind, to
be treated as we would treat any other rapncious
animals, and it would become the duty of all
christcndom to make common cause against them
as common enemy. If our rights and liberties
as a citizen depended upon consenting to, or re-
framing from dcnouncing this most cowardly and
infamous crime, we would welcome Imprisonment,
torture or death as the alternative; and we hold
every man who countenances or consents to it, rs
a cowardly poltT0on and enemy to his kind.
When it comes to that, that twenty five millions
of people, with Nil the resources Of our great
nation, cannot conquer five millions, shut off
from all foreign supplies, without melting their
serviles to the butchery OF women and children.
then by all the rules of civilized warfare. they
are entitled to their independence. III this be
treason, make the most Of it,"