Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-17

Il MT SuhmUcEb sAA4 no BAo uoAoAGAAsS
debate the question. All nature cries ont
IaRainst it. The negro race was ordained
70 slavery by the Almighty. Emanctpa.
tion would be the destruction of our social
and political system. God forbid that this
i Trojan horse should be introduced among
US. The negro (said Mr.. Chambersl will
not fght. All history shows this.
Mr.. Simpson, of South Carolina (sOttO
poee)-The Yankees make them fight.
Mr.. Lester, of Georgia-Not much.
Mr.. Marshall, of Keutuoky-Fill them
with Whiskey and they will fight. II is
not denied that the negro will 6ght, but
will he fight we'll enough to resist the
Yankee armies The negro cannot be
made good soldier. The law of his race
is against it. OF great simplicity, Of dis
position tractable, prone to obedience and
and highly initiative, he may be easily
drilled; but timid, aVerse to effort, with
out ambition, he has no BOldierly quality.
Being adapted by nature to slavery, as he
makes best of slaves, he must needs make
the worst Of soldiers. he could recOlleCt
no instance in the war OF '76 where negro
troops were used in regular organization
and regular battle, except the battalion of
slaves which Lord Dunmore brought into
the field near Norfolk against the Virginia
militia, and in that affair as We are told
by the historian BOtta, they ''Rcted shah
billy, and saved themselves by flight
When in 1898. the English landed on the
island of st. Domingo, they found 1t de-
Tended by over twenty thousand troops,
chiefly rnuIattoes aud negroes, but with
less than one Thousand men captured sew
eral important stIOngholds, and with less
than two thousand finally sieZed upon Port
au Prince the capital of the leland. The
French authorities, in their extremity, o =
fered freedom to the slaves-Over four hum
dred Thousand in number-On condition of
military services for tho occasion in de-
fence Of their homes, as we would say, yet
oulv six thousand aVaiIed themselves of the
offer although these slaves were still
bloody from the insuErectiOn OF 1890. They
preferred slavery TO military SERVICE
So in the beginning Of the war the negro
escaped at every opportunity TO our en-
emies to avoid work. but since the system
of negro conscriptiOn has been adopted by
the United States government he now re-
mains with us, true to the instincts of his
race. 1t is not slavery he desires to avoid;
it work in any form, but especially work IN
the form of dangerous service. This gov
erument possesses all the war power origi
uallY pOesessed by all tho people OF the
several States, With wise design they
have delegated the whole, with little or NO
reservation. 1t is not too much to say that
not the Gear of Russia, not even Peter the
Great, whose despotism was restrained by
no traditions ami alarmed by no fears,
could have brought into the field so
promptly and thoroughly the entire war
power of that despOtism as this govern
ment has elected the war power OF the sew
erol States in defence of the rights OF the
States. For this purpose the first gun at
Fort Sumter summoned them to arms;
they will again Hy 10 arms in the same ca
sred cause, whenever and by whomeVer
menaced. When the last man shall have
sunk in his tracks, when the last steed
shall have fallen beneath his rider, and the
last morsel of food shall have vanished
from the land, then, and not till then, will
the war power of this government be exc
bausted.
Mr.. Goode, of Va, said he was opposed
to the employment of negroes as soldiers
uuder any circumstances. He was oppos-
ed to 1t because it WAS a confession Of
weakness to the enemy. He was opposed
to it because he thought it would end in
abolition. He was opposed to il because
it was degrading to our men. he believed
that the right place for Cutfee was in the
corn field.
AT quarter. r.past two O'Clock, on motion
of Mr.. RUSSELL of Virginia, the House went
into secret session to consider bill repOr-
ted from the Judiciary Committee