Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-08-26
MODEL MASSACHUSETTS.

We wonder If any ppectacle can be more
degrading than to SOC Massachusetts, whose
Vaccinations for supremacy in the Union
have eliminated in the present conflict
snnaking in tho rear Of the Yankee army to
PICK up negroes enough to keep her citizens
ca: Of lie Gght. She has received an appro-
r,ia,a rebuke from Sherman, who hos told
one Of her Substitute agents that civilians
:.t,at {. camp are q nuisance" That tho
,.u;g i! citizens to hight for their country is not
I, hr "rcilllod off," that 1.-The negro is not the
equal OF tho white man." ''that Gen. Sher-
man has not. in oil his Summer travels IN
G:a.sia, seen q single able bodied man, black
Or white, cut Of the ranks Of the contendinS
!yu,ics." That tho agent had better return
:, Massachusetts, and zee what number Of
aj.;,-boiieI blsck and white men could be
mad in thnt State" and lastly, that ian "nt-
ssssql areN will become necessary to over
como the wide sprGnd resistance offered 10 us. -
The evidence that the South cann0s DO con-
uner:d by hiring its own slaves to cut the
thyoats o! their masters. seems to DO inlpresB-
il. it.ell upon tho Yankee mind BY apressure
FROM ver:oh9 quarters, amongst which may be
SGT down Is chief, the destruction and demon
..':.a.iaa cf tho slave soldiers themsclyes.-
sherman ought to 10 good authority upon the
ausi.e:, and he emphstically declares TOR an
IL: yg-sal draft, and no negro substitutes. lie
Starts nice point upon Massachusetts,.
Emancipation says Sherman, is strictly a war
.opasusc. The "srmy in the field is entitled
10 s.ll tbs tr'ra assissance the omsncipated
s,.yo can render" Bide vice." MIR.
Sherman, theso negroes are, according to tho
doctrine Of Massachusetts, free men, not chat
,ols. They canpot he, therefore, captured and
armed over for military use like cattle. MIR.
!.noo!n's proclamation gives them thor Tree
G9n, absolutely and Internationally. Tho
Coar:s snd Congress regard them as citizens
o! the United States. Why, then, cannot
.:,oso citizens tender their bodies in substitu-
ION for the bodies Of other citizens2 But,
snys ,ilr. Sherman, ait is not just towards
the Veterans Of the national army to reduce
them to the level of raw negro recruits" We
NAV Imagine the subdusd indignation with
which the agent received this insult, standing
in the prescnce of the mighty Sherman but
who can shadow the wrath of Boston when he
returns with the tidings that Sherman not only
insists upon seeing them at the front in proper
person, bat tells them fatty that negro re-
craft" is not fit comrsde for veteran Of the
nas;lnnl army. We may suppose the pol.
ished Everett in the chair. His opening ad-,
dress sii, conform to the most perfect model of
rhetoric bu, no will say nothing dlsrespOctful to
Sherman OF tho negroes. Fred Douglass will
denounco tie sham of negro emancipation,
and ah"se Sherman Wendell Phillips will
ASSET tie administration of Lincoln, whilst
the strong minded females will 80 of in q
spasm q: the iugratitude Of tho Yankee Re-
public.
No agree with Sherman. The niger is
played cut Massachusetts must come to the
front: numerical draft" will be indispen.
sable. These arc the issues. Tho indspend-
ence Of the Southern States, or IN universal
draft of white Yankees, an incompatible pub.
lilo debt, and war that shall last till desols>
ton shall echo to the tread Of the victor.