The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
VOLUME 2 NUMBER 10
Negro Troops.

From the Richmond Sentinel, March 1871
The recruiting officers of Mr.. Lincoln's
Government have shown considerable ac-
tivity in compelling pursuading to enter
his army. the negroes who have been SO un-
fortunate as to fall into his power. When
we consider the philanthropic prstensss un-
der which Abolitionism so long assailed
and finally destroyed the peace of the coun-
try, it is impossible to suppress the feelings
of disgust and contempt which this treat
ment of the negroes inspires.
To the miserable victims it is in the last
degree treacherous, inhuman and base-a
fit commentary, however, on that hypocri-
cy which Abolitionism for years has been
acting before the world. Boasting of t,0enty
millions of totites to our .fve, they yet stoop
to do what no pressure of the war has ex-
torted from US; and calling on Africa to save
them, they thrust the poor negroes in the
front rank of the battle and drive them to
the slaughter with fixed bayonets.
These negroes thus made into soldiers in
order to fight the battles of Massachusetts,,
have been pushed into the fight on various
fields. Everywhere they have been liter
ally slaughtered. At Port Hudson, at Bat
terry Wagner. at Ocean Pond, they were
thus driven to the massacre by the pale
faced towards who sheltered behind them.
We may expect to meet them in other pla-
ces. Butler, as BELTS his fame, exhibits es-
pecial zeal in this outrage upon both white
and black He has his negro horsemen aud
his negro footmen, and he has marched
some of his black regiments into Suffolk,
and pointed others against Richmond. Our
soldiers will confront them during the sum-
mer cam paign.
How shall we trest these negro soldiers?
We think::it should not be forgotten that
many of them were forced into their pres
ent positions. They were conscribsd and
mustered In at the point of bayonet. 9th
ers, if not put in by violence, yielded to ap-
pliances scarcely less compulsory. We
think that as to ell these we should induce
dessrt;on by keeping for them open door,
A negro who will throw down the asms
which have been placed in his hands, when
ever he has an opportunity, and who comes
to our lines for protection, should be re-
ceived with that humanity which the poor
Africans finds only in the Confederate
States. We should let it be known among
them that all such, so escaping to our lines,
will be received with kindness. As to those
found in battle, there is no choice left us,
and the Yankees know it when they drive
them upon their fate.
We need make no more proclamations;
we need announce no purposes! The ne
gross know that when found with arms in
their hands against their masters, they and
their leaders forfeit their lives TO the laws.
The necessity is as great as that which sends
a murderer to the gallows, and it is a ne
cessity which war does not suspend, but
renders more imperative and urgent Our
social system is the same that it was.
LincoIn's proclamations effect it no more
than decree of the czar, save that they
suggest greater vigilance and more unben
ded sternness. The enemy is making SOL
dier's of our negroes, put them under SEN
tence of death. They do it knowingly and
wilfully, and on them will be their blood.
These negro troops have been of but little
avail thus far they will be of less when it is
fully known among them with what advan-
tage they may avoid battle and return to
their duty to their masters. and what fate
they will reap if they continue in their
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