Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-11-04

-tDan Lney reVoIteu ana being accustomed to the
military knowledge and discipline of the Romans,
they obtained important advantages; and " the So
cia War being ended" says the historian. ait was
but making one step farther to involve the republic
in all the horrors of civil war" Aud that civil war
ended in the destruction of the republic and 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 Haytan revolution in 1892 The
insane debates in the National Assembly of France
in 1871, on the subject of the rights of man with
out reference to color condition, led to the insur
rection in the French colony in Hayti and this was
soon followed by 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 expedi.
tion against St. Domingo which was organized by
First Consul Bopapsrte in 1901, 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 Peton he succeeded to the Presidency
In short time he established the republic OF Hayti
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
cirnilar 10 tha
same. 1t is no better than it was when Spartacus
led his revolt when Dessalincs 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 1872? Is this one
of the results of "peaceable seceSsionF p We we're
forced into dissolution and war on account Of an
abstraction about slavery in the Territories and
now, having lost all hope 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 as so disgusting in enemies, but to run
the hazards ofserVie war among ourselvesl And all
this for what Not for slavery says the Confederate
but for independence. What would such ndepen-
dence as Hayti enjoys be worth to uSH 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
himselfH 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 go. 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
zation and manhood of the country, let US not get
behind our negroes and have part of them butch
cred, and then the risk of being butchered our
selves by the other part in order to achieve aninde
pendence which would make serve race the equals
of those whites who might survive. Equals, did We
Say2 Yes, to that complexion must it come at last,
if we employ these people soldiers If they 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 of them, they would be formidable foes
Away with this folly away with this insanity !
If we not able or willing to fight our own bat.
ties let US sound truce and ask terms of the enemy
But let no original secessionist 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 go,
to get behind the negro That is just what the
cowardly abolitionists are doing Thousands of our
brave boys who own no slaves, have been lighting
for years for the negro; do not ask them, on your
account to screen you, to fight With the ne"
gro. Let it be war of white men for white
men; and then, when independence is achev-
ed, it will be decent honorable independence,
which we can point to with pride and transmit to
our posterity, as having been won for US, not by
servile race, but by own indomable courage and
perseverance. q