The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-03-03
From the London Herald, Jan. 81.
The AbOlitIonists and the Nesro-CaustiS
Sfricfures

Inc Edtn burg ReUfet0 OF this montn uss |
an article on "The Negro Race in America"
which would appear to have been written
by some Aboiitionist fanatics, whether
English or Yankee. who have never read
ANYTHING but Abolitionist tracts and Adolf
ton newspapers, who knows nothing what
ever about the institutions OF the South, or
about the character of the negro, who gets
his facts from Butler and Seward, aud his
PHILOSOPHY from Beecher and Wendell
Phillips, It is quite posi- BILE for such wri-
ter to believe that the negro race have been
inteiligently rwaitipg emancipation; that
they are as capable and moro moral than
whites: and they work better as freemen
thar as slaves, and that they have submitt-
ed 60 long TO slavery only because they
shrank from mourning the bloodshed and
confusion which must follow q servile re-
volt. It is possible for such writer to fan
cy thatthe negroes have been ill-treated by
the South and kindly received by the North;
that they love the Yankee and hate the
southerner; that they act as northern spies.
and not as Confederate scouts; that they do
soldiers servics in the Federal armies, aud
have In that capacity achieved victories
worthy of remembrance.
The fact is that the whole negro popula-
ton, with here and there an exception, has
been happy and contented iI slavery; that
the free negro is utterly unable to take care
OF himself in the midst of superior num-
Der of whites; that he will do no work at
all and is one Of the most miserable beings
in creation. Such is the expsrieG ce of the
United States, north and south; such is the
experience of our West India Islands. in one
of which the free negroes lately got up re-
bellion, of which the object was to plumber
all the property of the whites. to gain pos
session of the women and to massacre all
the men. The negroes Of the southern
States were a happier and higher species;
thew were well fe and kindly treated. and
ldevotedly attached to their masters and
their masters families. In the North they
were ill-used. spurned. and spit upon; hogg-
ed out Of ons State; fined if they set foot in
another; in no State Out of New England
admitted TO the privileges Of citizenship
Consequently, when the war broke out the
negroes were enth iastically loyal to their
masters.
When Lincoln's proclamation was issued,
the Aboiitionists-- -who expected aud hop
ed, who passionately proclaimed their
hope, that the negroes would rise upon
their masters families. and enact through
out the South the horrible scenes OF Delhi
and Gavin pore-were bitterly disappointed.
The negroes remained quiet and loyal,
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zealously, that the sobe rer sort Of northern
officers began to find out that an intelligent
cUutraband m cant a Confederate spy. And
so thew have remained. except when they
have been dragged forcibly away from their
homes to serve or die under the Yankee
colors or when, left for m nihs under Yam
kee control, thev have been debauched and
brutalized by drink. by license. and by the
preachings OF Mr.. Beecher's disciples. who
| leach the famous creed o!"hell FIRE for the
leaders and Greek fire for the m asses."-
| So the wretch ed slaves who have fallen in =
to northern hands either d lie by thousands OF
want. cold max dness- and tens ofthousands
have so perished-or. being completely de-
bauched, are employed as the tools Of north
ern vengeance; now in a destructive eKpe-
dition, which burns and plumbers, but dares
not fight; now in numbering old men and
children; now in outr ging the IN happy IN
habitanis of the districts which have fallen
into northern hands
The military achievements have been
confined to three forms Of service-they
have burned unresisting towns like Daren
they have committed massacres like that OF
Beckham's Landing; they have been the
tools Of Fed eral cruelty and vindic,iveness,
as they have at Norfolk; they have never
done anything in the field Of battle. excep
when driven on by Yankee bayonets. they
have screened the cravan soldisry Of Massa-
chusetts from the FIRE Of Confederate batter
ies The most remarkable Of their exploits
Is one of which the full history has not yet
reached US; butit appears that they mutini-
ed at Fort jackson. murdered thoir white
officers, and beat off force sent against
them. Thus their only success in fighting
has been obtained over the Yankees. and
not in their service.
At Norfolk, under the congeniai leader
ship of "the infamous" General Butler,
they are no doubt fulfilling the hearts de
sire of their emancipators. by tormenting,
insulting and vexing in every possible way
the wretched inh abitants. These are de-
tanned By force, aud are not allowed to
cross the Confederate lines, nor yet to live
under Federal rule without taking. not one,
but twenty oaths of allegiance. If man
desires to m axe purchase. to recover sto!en
property, 20 perform any of the most neces..
sary duties of Gill zed life. he finds that he
| finds that he must take an oath of allegi-
ance to a government which he lOathes and
detests, and IN each occasion a new oath IS
required. Woman, also are subject TO this
law, and what is worse, no protection from
the foulest insults is allowed 10 any one
who does not swear in tbs prescribed form.
When General Butler issued hiJ proclama-
ton authorizing his troops to treat the la
dies of New Orleans as women Of the town
plying their vocation, some verv nuscrupul'
Gus persons here and in America tried to
argue that he did not mean that he said;
that he only intended brutal and black
guard insult, tot license to outrsg,.
We beg to call the attention OF those per
sons TO the TACT that, a. if with deliberate
intent to give them the lie. their honorable
client has now notified to the negro troops
at Norfolk and to the white women living
there, that no protection against outrage
will be given to ahy woman who has not