The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-05-14
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A iaes paragraph from Northern pa
pess anaoancs that some thirty vessels o
var Of The Federal navy are waiting 70
cssWA and TINT In order 10 supply them MI
secrstazy Welies has determined TO p'se'
negroes aboard Of them as common sailors
Oae tAoesand blacks, enlisted iu MARYLAND
for the army, have been disbanded, prior u
placing then On board Of some Of these yes
seas.
Itb well understood that the African mas
very much disappointed the Yankee IN Tue
array. He does we'll ~ brutal guard over
ColfedsFats prisoners-shooting one oc-
ca1loaaliy; he does botter As pianasfef
end general rufaan amongst An overfaa
Southern population, submitted to his mer
q. But n the dea lily conflict, on the battle
Aead. he = failure. He has never stood UP
vell TO be shot ii. The Yankees have tried
20 force him into fight, as well as screen
themselyes from what they would ratksr
avoid the impetuous attack Of Confederate
soldiss-by placing him in the front of bal
tie. They have found, to their cost, that
thIs expedient win not effect their object
The negro. upon the drst shock of battle,
changes front and rushes to the rear, spread
ing confusion and disorder In the Yankee
ranks. and helping to that defeat which has
aways fallen upon them where they at
tempted thus to use him. With the unia-
vosable results of the experiments thus far
made, the army Of the United States Is
dosbtlaas satisfied that "American citizens
al African descent" viii not be Of very great
service In the battlefield
Therefore, the United States army is very
ready to acquiesce in the disbanding Of some,
4 least, Of the black troops, and their
transfer to Mr.. We.les's vessels of war
how they will demeau themselves on the
sea, We may well conjecture. They cannet
run there; but that they will prove to be
either good sailors or good fighters On
The water, Is not at all probable. II
or :Mamtt, were to encounter 3
Federal vessel manned by these sable
sallors, he would contemplate an en-
gagoment with them with a feeling of
blended, however, with trace
81 pity for the poor, misguided, and deludsd
beings, whom the nefarious Yankee has thus |
to be ultimately betrayed and cast |
fiendless upon the world. It would GER |
;alnly be no great achievement for the CoIn
;ederate Captains on the seas, who have won
or themselves such worldwide renoHn, tc.
Iefeat vessel thus mannea, with almosl
ny odds Of guns ana tonnage.
The Yankees would fad, even were the |!
African white man-no better than them |
elves that he was not to be elevated sud |
enly to equality with thems elves, let alone
chivalrous people, IN the arts OF war-af-
or having been, for many generations, Of
ervile race. Ii 1t were impossible in the
rhite race, il is not less So in the black
he sequel will prove that the poor African,
instead OF giving any strength to the Yam
ees BY entering either branch of the war
Ike service, will be for him al element Of
He Is unreliable ia war, aud to
iy extent that the business OF war is LEFT
him there will be failure to the detrimeut
those who employ him. 8, far rs he is
SEQ 70 ada by his ignorance anu hasbaTity
, the horrors OF war, In his treatment OF
eienceless aud helpless communities, We
elieve that, 10 the hands Of Providence, he
MI bethe agent Of provoking s.a ultimate
etribution for the demons who hound him /!
q, that will be righteous and just, and that |
NIL be hailed with joyous satisfaction by
he civilized world. The employment OF The ,
avee OF the South-beings in great de-
roe brought into bondage by the ancestors
! these very Yankees-ior the purposes OF
preading desolation aud terror over the
nd, 10 crime Of such enormity that its !
enaiaes will be handed down from genera.
90 to generation Of the postegity of the
eopie who, In their heariless malice, have
d hesitased to inaugurate these horrors.