Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-11-09


but making one step farther involve the republic
in all the horrors of civil war;" Atsd that civil war
ended in the destruction of the republic sud the
reign of the tyrant, ,Sylla. -
Instructions by slaves whether white or black,
have seldom if ever resulted from the system ITSELF
but they have generally been caused by some tam
pering with the relation of master and slave which
has impaired the authority of the former, and
tempted the latter to revolt This is true from the
horrible war in Italy under Spartacus, down to the
atrocities of the Haytian revolution in 1892. The
insane debates in the National Assembly of France
in 1891, on the subject of the rights of with
out reference to color condition. led to the nsur
rection in the French colony in Hayti and this was
soon followed by an act Of the Assembly, proclaim
ing the equality Of the free negroes and the whites
Every is familiar with the atrocities which fol-
lowed AT length Boyer, mulatto, whose mother
had been slave in Congo, having taken part with
many other persons Of color in LIE Clercs ex2edi-
ton against St. Domingo, which was organized by
First Consh Bonaparte in 18Ol,' and having dis
played ability and address under Petion was nam.
ed by the latter as his successor, and in 1918, on
the death of Petion he succeeded to the Presidency
In short time he established the republic OF Hayt,
and united the whole island under one government;
and thus, in the end the blacks became the undis-
puted masters of the island
We can have no assurance that what has taken
place in the past will not take place again, under
similar circumstances. Human nature is ever the
same. 1t is no better than it was when Spartacus
led his revolt or when Dessaines headed the freed
blacks in Hayti. And is 1t possible that we have
come to this, that an organ Of the administration
holds up for our imitation the example Of heather
Sparta, and Of insane France in 1892! Is this one
of the results of "peaceable secession?" We were
forced into dissolution and war on account of an
abstraction about slavery in the Territories and
now, haying lost all hope as to the Territories, and
being pressed in the States, we are called upon to
abandon the very institution which caused the
and not only this but to arm the slaves, and thus
court not only the negro equality which we have
regarded so disgusting in enemies, but to run
the hazards ofservile among ourselves! And all
this for what? Not for slavery, says the Confederate
but for independence. What would such indepen-
dence as Hayti enjoys be worth to US? Do We want
Independent free negro colonies Must the Southern
white man fight to free the negro. and then, when
the war is over, admit the negro to footing with
himsef3 We want no such independence as that.
If the slaves stand in the way of independence, or
in the way Of any honorable settlement of our diff
culties let them 60. If we had our way we would
not shed another drop of white blood account of
the negro but in the name Of common decency, in
the name of humanity, and for the sake of the civ
iizaton and manhood of the country, let not get
behind our negroes and have part of them butch
cred, and then run the risk of being butchered our
selves by the other part in order to achieve an inde
pendence which would make servile the equals
of those whites who might survive. Equals, did We
say9 Yes, to that complexion must it come at last,
if we employ these people as soldiers. Ifthey fight
for liberty they will be entitled to enjoy it. The
freedom of the ballot-box-the right to vote, which
the free blacks in this State had up to 1885, would
make them our equals politically If We denied them
this right they would be apt to fight for it and with
arms in their hands, and accustomed as they would
be to the use of them they would be formidable foes
Away with this folly AWAY with this insanity
Ii we are not able or willing to fight our own bat
ties, let us sound truce and ask terms of the enemy
But let no original secessionst and no modern ally
of that class, and no slaveowner who has thus far
been screened from service by the number of his
slaves, attempt now, when the call is for all to 60
to get behind the negroi That is just what tho
cowardly abolitiouists are doing Thousands of our
brave boys who own no slaves, have been fighting
for years for the negro; do not ask them, on your
account, to screen you, to fight soiA the ne.
gro. Let it be war of white men for white
men; and then, when independence is achiev-
ed, it will be decent honorable independence,
which we can point to with pride and transmit to
our posterity, as having been won for U.s. not by 4
servle race but by our own ndomitsble courage and
perseverance.