Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-15
= LATE REBEL NEWS.
A NEW scheme to Abo1ltoni1s the
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From the Lynchburg Republican.

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From the Lynchburg Republican.
1t is painful to rfect how soon the land
marks Of the great principles are lost amid
the throes of revolution: For forty years
the people of the South have been iercely
battling against the mad schemes of The
lAbolitionists to destroy the Institution OF
domestic slavery. We have uniformly con-
tended that negroes were property, and
that slavery was a local Institution, with
which no power under the sun could in
terfere save the sovereign States them
selves, in their individual capacity. For
this great principle of right of ths States
10 regulate their domestic institu tons to
suit themselves, we went to war with the
North, and for nearly four years have
maintained the dreadful conflict with un-
examDled success. Just at the moment
when all the gigantic schemes of the enemy
to subiugate us have faiIed-When Grant
is painting for breath to renew contest in
which he has been completely baf1ed, and
Sherman is toIling to escape from the tolls
of Hood. which threatens the destruction
of his army-just at the suspicious mo-
ment when the bright and glorious day of
independence is abont to break upon us,
with the splendor of an upclouded sun-
at such a moment it is graTely proposed by
respectable though chimerical journals in
the South TO ignore all our past cardinal
principles, surrender the great question for
which we went to war, and do for our
selves precisely what Lincoln and the abb
,olitionists proposed to do for ns, without
wsr-G6oEisb slavery.
This is the naked proposition of those
who advocate the CONSUMPTION of our slaves
as soldiers. They propose to conscript
sail the able. bodied negroes OF the coun-
try" between the ages Of l8 and do "'re'
spectiveIY," !" arm. and equip them in the
field as soIdiers along with our white men.
AS an iuducement to make these negroes
faithful to our cause, they are to be given
their freedom and permitted to live among
MS after the war as fFeemeH. The result
of such q proposition, if successful, cannot
be mistaken by blind man or an idiot.
1t will convert the sovereign States of the
Confederacy into free negro colonies, with
all the social and political evils which
attend the amalgamation of adverse races.
If our negro men are made free, thenj JAS
tice and sound policy would require that
their wives and children should be permit
ted to enjoy freedom, along with their hus-
bands and fathers, on the principle an
nounced by the Richmond Enquirer, "that
they who fight for freedom deserve to be
freemeh." Whether this be just or not, it
lis very certain that our slaves once made
freemen, and trained in the skill Of arms,
and the hardships of the camp, and the
dangers of the battle field, would not only
Insist on their own freedom, but on the
freedom of their entire race.
4 Nay, more. They would insist, and
have the right to insist at the point of the
ibayonet, upon enjoying all the civil, social
and political rights epjoyed by their former
masters, on the ground that they had saf:
Ifered equally all the dangers and respou.
.sibiities of the struggle. The horrible
result would be either the amalgamation
of the black and white races in the South,
with all its attendant shame aud ruin, or
Greadfal civil war of 'extermination be-
tween the white men and black Can
such consequences be contemplated by the
Southern mind without 8 shudder for the
result Aud yet this is the certain end
to which it is now proposed to educate
orr slaves.
Look at the question in another point oi
view. If our slaves are made soldiers,
then they will have to be governed by the
same military laws which govern the white
man, because we have only one military
code. They will, therefore, be fpse factC
the eQnAl of their masters. entitled to the
same rights sapd spbiecs Saly 70 She same
Ipunishments. The insotence of our for
mer slaves Wonld have to be endured, or
i if chastised, they would have the right aud
/ the force to chsstise back again; thus de-
l stroyinR the FIRST principle of negro subor-
dinetiu6, Mhichi is the life of the .institu.
ton at the South.
But supposing the question to be fraught
with none of these terrible social and po.
litical evils, It is perfectly clear to ou1
mind that armed negroes would be {
source of perpetual danger and weaknest
to the South in this struggle, instead O.
4 strength. When We shall have armed
them, what security have We that they
i will not desert us and join the enemy II
a body9 Removed from all natural prin
cipIe and, from observation, they will Ger
! tainly do 500 Place our negroes in tht
! field as soldiers, aud they would Surrender
every. position where they might be places
i to defend, for it is idle to talk 70 sepsibt
men about the fidelity of slaves. That i
a subject which will do to Rmuse tn
brains of romauceFs. 3, ..r.e.5-..+r
Nor ia this all, When we conscript al
the able bodied negroes, who are to cult
VRta 0nr fields and support oar armies
put the white men and negroes all in tn
field, and. what will folloE but genera
4 Starvation 1's5With the negro 10 the fel'
and in the trenches he is a powerful AMI
indispensable Anxiliary to our cause Thf
/ is q itts c4pheityeih xhish Lineoln fears th