The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-03

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TBE REBEL ENPEDIENT or AuoI.
IsHING SLAVERY IN ORDER To -.
TABLIsH a sLAVEEOLDING CON.
FEDERACN.
Prom me H,.8A
Shortly after General sheridan sent ihe routed
Rebel army Of General Early "whirliup tbropgb
Winchester, the Birhm nd EDgpi,,r-believod
to enjoy the special confidence OF JcM Davis
came out strongly in favor Of general arr,ipg of
the ablobodicd slaves Of "thc Conicderacy." AZ
the last resort for Southern indenendouce. This
proposition was promptly and earnestly seconded
by the Rebel Governor Of the northwest corner
OF louisiana, and from other quarters, until NJ
length the editor Ct a North Carulinapaper obc
southern Cofcdoo',), writing to said paper from
Richmond, has favored the world with the fol.
lowing startling report
@Ihc prts,urc hroo.nt uron t aulrort,, icr, favor
s c AniE 90 tl backs, has su str,n. 1 resist.
LeEcg ts Nih gratitude ,lat am ahla ~ state oaigy
sast siIaLEemen' a,c 70, being made to f1r tho
masters az 60 he compensated by the Confadcrato ov
is sla'e5 thus armed arc ,o,1ne their freo
maHcnt home, In tie South"
HCrc VIC have The positive statement, As from
OILc 9l authority, that the arrangements are under
way M Richmond 20 arm for tho spring cam
paign three hundred thousand able-boiied slaves
the masters to he paid In that sort OF Rebel cash
known es "ContCd dcrate scrip" and the slaves 10
be compensated with the gift Of freedom and n
present TO each Of fifty acres of land This is
indeed, most extraordinary scheme TO secure
the independence OF a Southern Confederacy ON
the Gorner-stone OF African slavery. It is a thing
wholly unparalleled in the records of ancient or
modern warfare, except in a case or two here
and there, whore a desperate pirate in order 10
escape his pursuers, has blown himself up with
bis own ship.
A very brief inquiry into this matter will serve
to show the almost inevitable consequences from
the adoption Of tho scheme proposed. In the
hrst place, the sU-called Southern Confederarv
has been RACED by the armies and nayics of the
Union to one-ihrd its original dimensions or to
an area embracing about four millions and a half
0f population. Of this aggregate, VIC will say
That two and half millions arc negro slaves
Take from these three hundred thousand soldiers
and there will not be a sound negro boy loft over
ten years OF age, nor man under seyenty-fye
cap1blc OF CuTryng mu.ket.
It follows tbat,as "the Confedcracy" has already
been drained OF its able. bodied whites the women
and children ofthc blacks will have to feed them
selves and the Rebel armies, while the white
women and children are clothing their armies,
themselves, and their blacks at home or armies
and people, whites and blacks will all soon he
reduced to absolute nakedueSs and starvation
In other words, the experiment of general star
walton will Immediately follow throughout the
rebellious States the withdrawal of their able
bodied negro males from the cornield to the
camp, even to the extent Of fifty thousand men
beyond the number now employed in the Rebel
military service.
But let MS suppose That three hundred thousand
or all the able-bod.cd negro males of the Rebel
lious States now held by Davis are put into his
armies, with the understanding that each man Il
to be "A free man and the owner of fifty acres of
land, with the success of "the Confcderacy,"
what next? column of, say, twenty thousand
of these black Rebel soldiers Is brought into col
lision with an equal force Of Union negro troops.
The Union negroes retreat; the JEFF Davis
negroes pursue, calling out, 1--WE surrender, we
surrender"
We are coming. Tatler Abraham
Three hundred thOuS9ud more.
What other result could follow, with the offer
OF immediate freedom, not only to the Rebel
negro soldier mscf, but TO his wife and children
Againstth this invitation is it likely that solitary
Olack IN the Rebel army would prefer 10 fight his
own race for the perpetual ensaycment Of his
family ard their descendants Not one. Of
course, then, the family of the negro employed as
soldier by JEFF. Davis must be emanciplted
before he can be trusted, and as this concession
would involve the total abolition of slavery there
would be no further use for o Southern Con.
tedcfacy, and IL would at once tumble into frag-
ments with the removal OF its foundation
The main difficulty in this business still re-
mains to be considered-how will this scheme
for armiug their slaves be received by the slave.
holders of "he Confcdoracy :" This is their
Rebellion, their Southern CoUfederacy, ,contrived
inauguratCd and controlled by them for the pro-
lection of their slave property, and for the per-
petuation and expansion of their "peculiar in
Stitution.' II is the cOr9cr-stOne of their poti.
cal and social fabric; il is "the alpha and omega
the beginning and the end" OF their hopes and
designs.
They have managed to use up all the poor
whites of their COntedcraCy; they have sacrificed
three or four cotton crops; they have bled freely
in many other ways to sustain their chosen die
tatOT Davis vast numbers of their brethren have
been completely stripped of their slaves by "the
Yankees" but there is still considerable rem
nant OF this Southern ruling class OF Rebel slave
holders whose "negrO quarters" remain intact;
and the question is, what will these men do when
called upon to try the game Of abolition against
Lincoln to secure southern independence?
They will tell Master Davis that this thing is
impossible and they will abandon him in the
attempt TO enforce il. They will tell him that
Southern men who have lost their slaves and
Southern politicians and the poor white trash"
who never had any slaves are raising this clamor,
but let him beware Otthc consequences of yielding
to it. lfthe issue they will say, is to be reduced
TO tins disgusting game OF abolition between Abe
Lincoln and JEFF. Davis, the Southern STAKEHOLDER,
who he's sacrificed everything but his negroes for
the I'ause of slavery, will throw mp his hand.
Why should ne prOtract this war and continue TO
play the fool ii all the Southern Confederacy
promised him is 10 be abolished as it will be with
thC abolition OF slavery
This is the rock upon which Davis will split in
attempting to arm the slaves of the rebeiOus
States on the basis Of emancipation and free
negro southern COuledeTary. Whatever Gar
rangCmenls," therefore, may be making az Rich
mond TO this end "ior the spring campaign" we
Prediet that Davis viii 70. attempt 10 put them
into practice. Against the Southern "poor white"
and tho non-slaycholding politician, the Southern
STAKEHOLDER is still the master. Finally, "the
spring cHmpliRn," from all present apnearances
Will ind Jcf. Davis either dead in his "last
ditch, OF fugitive from justice and his Rebel
CUniederacy dcfunct.
NOW, UNiONISTS!