New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-10-26
HARD UP.

gnarllDg because the autnoritieo VIII ho' WIN"
cate negroes, and make troops OF them. IL Is
stated by these authorities that at least t"o-
thirds of the Rebel army are absent without
leave or license, and that the blacks are abso'
lutely necessary to supply deficiencies. This Is
certainly, cheering intelligence to everybody
except the Chcagoites, who can hardly look al
! these facts other than dsmally, in view OF the
confiscation question which has proved so har'
esing to their equitable souls, because the
employment by the Rebels of blacks IN their
army knocks all tho coppcry constitutional ar
guments against cOnfscation in the head fofll
the enemy employs black to shoot, orto dlg' or
to drive there no reason for our not taking
him, if we can, aud doing with him rs we please,
than for our not taking guns, boggage-wasons,
or banners. Heretofore the insurgents have IN
sisted upon having pure white fight, and hare
fallen into extremitics of murderous wrath at
the few black regiments which we have III the
field, procamng their intention oil giving no
quarter to sable soldiers; while John Bull SHOOK
his wise head, and roarcd that bis slayeholding
friends were right, and that we were no better
than barbarinns 10 resort to such hi1cous,
bloody, and savage experiments. WeShall now
see whether, according to tleir philosophy,
good sauce for the goose is q bad sauce for the
gander.
Il But very lsmentable is the other fact, that
two-thirds of the Rebel army, with an eyre
4 gious want Of patriotism, have taken unto them
: selves legs aud fed, perhaps to the uttermost
parts of the earih--to the Barcan desert or the
! banks Of tie Oregon, or may be to the Northern
, States TO get something to cat, and to vote Tor
z Mcclellan leaving the fighting to be done by
the dark.colored goods and chattels. This state
, mcnt Of the pusillanimous departure OF two
thirds" has an exaggerated cir, but certainly the
Richmond authorities would not make matters
) worse than they really are. If they tell the
\ truth, il is enough 70 make the Devil laugh
gaeerily TO hear of these military petriarchs-W1
3 mean tho 'one-third," who, for want Of strength
or some other reason, have not leyanted-call-
ing, in their sore necessity, upon the slaves to
come 10 their rescue. Men, at various times
, and in various ages, have fought for various
! diligence OF sheer sayagery, a5 well as for free
dom and liberty; but TO make poor rascGls fight
for their owl cuslayemcnt, risking their lives to
secure a lifelong misery, killing their best
r friends at the instance Of their worst enemies
nothing like this, so disInally ludicrous, has hap
pcncd in history, except, perhaps, in the history
of Sparta-a comfortable republic Of which the
citizens always appeared 10 us TO have been
generally insane, in consequence oflow diet and
the continual supervision Of the police.
When We proposed TO employ few black
soldiers, our horrible cruelty was duly get forth
by the British newspapers and one or two loqua
cious members Of Parliament. Upon this side
of the water, the Chicagoitcs walled in the same
behalf after o SIMILAR fashion. Even now they
are electioneerilg in the same way, and piteous-
" setting forth he unconstitutionality Of con-
fiscatiDg negroes to their own use and behoof.
Part of their pan IL, not merely TO restore the
Union, but to restore contIaband blacks to
their bercaycd md inconsolable masters. These
pacific politicians have not yet gone so far as to
propose the restoration of the Rebel guns which
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whole and entip hog, strikes US as little in
consistent Whit is a gun without man TO
work it What is man without gun to
work. If We lend back our contrabands TO
take the place OF the "two-thirds the pale
faced warriors wlo have absconded--we should
really return then armed and equipped out of
whatever spoils Of the enemy We may have on
hand, in good order for killing us, for digging
bitches that we may tumble into them, and for
building stone walls that VIC may break our soft
heads against then
The case would hardly be any better, even if
we shonld make a Chicago peace. coppery
Administration would, OF course, among other
charming arrangements, give up all tho "con-
trabands" upon WON it could lay its bloody
bands. Truth would be nothing-the national
honor, nothing-hunanity, nothing-future con-
sderations, as dust In the balance! Beautiful
is magnanimty and charming is forgiveness !
Noble will it be for Is to PIT the public enemy
as nearly as possible in state quo, SO that When
ever he takes il int his mad head to rebel
again, he may have aplcnty Of blacks to con-
vert into sappcrs andmncrs. The poor Rebel
the unfortunate, misguided man he has killed
our brethren, he has depleted our treasury, he
has put US to infinite trouble aud expense, and
| for these lavors We arc to send him buck his
| fugitive negroes-send them back in good order
aud we'll condtioncd-;end them back In chains