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FROM TIE SOUTH
Opinions of the Rebel Press on the
Negro Question.
rFrom the Savannah News, Nov. 3
NEGRO RECRUITING.
We commend the following article to the
careful consideration Of the advocates Of the
wild, run-rnad, and destructive plan Of making
soldiers Of negroes.
From the Lynchburg Republican,
4 NEW SCHEME TO ABoL1T10E1zE TIE SOUTH.
It is painful to reflect how soon the land
marks Of the great principles are lost amid
the tfroes of revolution. For forty years the
people Of the South have been battling against
the mad schemes Of the AbolAionists to de-
stroy the Institution Of domestic slavery. We
have uniformly contended TINT negroes were
property, and that slnyezy was q local insti-
could interfere, save the sovereign States
themselves, in their individual capacity; For
this great principle Of right Of the States to
themselves, re went to war with the North,
and for nearly four years have maintained the
dreadful conflict with unexampled success.
Just at the moment when al the gigantic
schemes Of the enemy to snbjugate us have
failed-when Grant Is painting for breath to
renew a contest In which he has been COM
pletely bafaed, and Sherman is telling to es-
cape from the coils Of Hood, which threaten
The destruction Of his army-just ut this au-
spicious moment, when tie bright and glort
ous day Of independence IS about to break up
on us with the splendor Of an unclouded
sun-just at such moment 1t = gEasely pro-
posed BY respectable though chimerical jour
nalists in tile South, to Ignore all our past
cardinal principles, and do-9or ourselves pre-
ciscly What Lincoln and the Abolitlonlsts pro-
posed to do for us, without war-abolish
This is the mixed proposition Of those who
advocate the CONSUMPTION Of our slaves - sol
diers. They propose to conscript "an the
able-bodied negroes Of the countryn between
the pees Of Is and 45 respectively" arm
and equip them lp the field as soldiers, along
make these negroes faithful to our cause, they
are to be given their freedom, and permitted
to live among rs after the. WAT as treemen-
| The result Of such proposition, If success
ful cannot Be mistaken By bllna man Or aa ~
the Confederacy into free negro colonies, With
all the social and political evils which attend
tile amalgnmation Of adverse races. If our
negro men are made free, then justice and
sound policy would require that their wives
and children should be permitted to enjoy
ers, on the principle announced by the kich-
mond EnquTsT, "that they Who fight for free
dom deserve to be freemen.n Whether this
be Just or not. It Is very certain that our
slaves, once made freemen, and trained IN the
skill Of arms and the hardships Of the camp
and the dangers Of the battle field, would not
only insist On their own freedom, but Oh the
freedom of their entire race.
Nav, more, They would insist, and have
| the rIeht to insist, ut the point Of the bayo-
| net, upon enjoying Ill the civil, social aud po-
| litical rights enjoyed by their former masters,
| on he ground lint They had suffered equally
| ali the dangers and responsibilities Of the
| struggle. The horrible result would be either
| the smalgumatfon Of the black and white ra-
ces IN the South, with all its attendant shame
! and ruin, or dreadful ciYil wur Of cxtermins..
| ton between the white men and the black
Can such consequences be contemplated BY
he Southern mind without shudder for the
I rnsu1te And vet this is the certain end to
which It is now proposed to educate our
slayes,
! view. # our slaves are made soldiers, then
| ther viii have to be rogernea by the same
rn;I}+oT 1aws whfrh GOVERN the white man,
haco,,as 90 have nnlv 6re military code. They
viii therefore he ir.e faeto the equal Of their
mastsIs enttHeu " an9 1,1;ahsnts nnah Tho IN.
JeGt on'y ~ an5 forq,ar .ia1as won1d haze to be-
soisnee " vaf toal ahna+s,.a;, +HeE wonid 1are
~ and H. 1orce r. hack amin
the fGns astraa 4u aao +bc tst r;nein1e of caTo
| tAHo osoiaJ .nS ~ ~ 9;ca IS ~ ;n,tE31
supo1 sin ~ S+h A1~1 .Ae 4AA~ - "13~
1lon at me eouen. ,,os.;o, ~ h, fror1,,+
But sapposlns tue 4us;salon ~ nS uS ,.a1;t$cai
WIN none " .ne ,ann soet ~ ~ ,nlnJ tha
evils, u IL iHilecay s1eas ~ W 10
armed negroes Toalu " e9oss s9e y, th;s
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