Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-08-04
What the Negro Troops are for.
KENTUCKY, June 20


10 the Editor of the Boston Courier:
My dear Sir-ThinkiDg that brief note
occasionally from a resident of this region
to the organ of conservative opinion in the
North may be of some use, l venture again
to trouble you.
The black cloud that has been gathered
In the South, and has caused such desc lstion
there. is gradually. coming nearer to its des
tined position, and will presently envelop
in darkness the whole land, unless the peo-
pie of the North awake in time from their
foolish dream of conquest, spoilation, aud
and sectional agrandisement. The negro
army Of the West, whose headquarters were
FIRST, believe, at NJ emphis, then at Psdu-
cab, have now been just removed to Louis
Vile. By plumber, insult and outrage, Pa
Educah, the most hourishing town in West
ern Kentucky, has been rendered uninhabit-
able be people, and indeed large portion
of the place has been waUtcnly destroyed.
Now we suppose the same deluge is to be
poured upon Louisville, Lexington, and all
the remainder of the State. You hear m UGH
more frequently now than ever before OF
guerrilla outrages in this State. Most OF
these men are persons, heretofore loyal, who,
robbed and plundered of all their means OF
sui sistence their lives threatened, and tn cir
!
under the command of more Infamous white
men, take to this course under mingled feel.
| ings of revenge and despair.
Have the Northern people yet surmis ed
the purpose Of the Negro army? Have they
utterly forgotten that the interests and the
| liberties of the whole people of this country
are bound up together9 The negro army
was not intend ed to fight the Confederates.
! That class of troops has been Kept hereto =
fore lust near enough to actual war to &C
custom them to bloodshed and cruelty,
while, as far as practicable, they are covered
by the white troops from actual danger. 1t
is appar ent now that mingled patriotism and
lust of power have thoroughly denounced
the abolition party. Their plan obviously
is, TO precipitate upon the South, by success :
sive conscriptions, all the fighting material
of the white population who are not aboli-
tiouists, and sacrifice them there; while the
negro army, as a JANUARY corps. is to be
employed IN the Northern and Middle
States to coerce passive obedience.
believe that these Infamous men enter
tain very little thought of subjugating the
South: but they are insanely joyous at the
prospect of su bjugating all that portion OF
the Union which is not now in rebellion -
By continuing the contest, upon the policy
lately adopted, they expect so to impair the
strength of the loyal states, outside of the
Aboli ion party, which takes precious care
Of ITSELF that the people will be meekly
submissive to a rule enforced by their array
OF black savages.
The Conservatives committed fatal mis-
take, iwhen, after the civic victory of 1862,
they neglected to appeal with ell the au-
thority of the State governments and with
the prestige of that great victory, to the
army, to stand firm in the defence of the
Constitution against every assault.
Is it impossible to awaken the Northern
people to a sense Of the real situation of af-
fairsP The tolls are around Us here. They
will soon be stretched over the entire coun-
try unless the people in those States not yet
In actual military occupation arouse to the
work before them, and vindicate once more
the liberty of American citizens.