The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-08-09

the dirt on our breaslWo ks, near the
battery Of heavy guns which Burnside
has pot up. Three o. four of our
own men have been watching him and
q cloud Of dust Is whirhd up from bis
hiding place.
There are aboul tbirty killed and
wounded every twenty four hours in
the 9th corps, simply because the reb-
els hate the colorei troops. There is
a steady flow ofblood upon the ground
Ia coustan, sacrifice q lie. mang-
ling Of men by this MoIoch Of our own
generation. Il pains me 10 say that
there are those in the army and out Of
I it WHO are not willing that the colored
man should be recognized as a man.
"The negroes ought bot TO be al
lowed TO fight, said a Massachusetts
Captain last night.
"Why rot, sn
"Because'ibe rebels bate as for
making lheig soldiers r. was the re-
ply
lie aided, a don't know bat that
they have souls, but look upon them
as a lower order Of beings than our.
selves !"
The old prejudice remains. We
are not willing 10 do justly. We are
not ready as a nation TO recognize the
negro as man, We ask him TO iight
our battles, but we pay him only hall
wages.
The rebels slaughter the colored
troops like sheep. They are deaf &c
calls Of qiarier, refusing TO receive
! them as prisoners Of var. They out
rival the Indians In barbarity, but
nothing is done about it We are
losing an average of thirty soldiers a
day for no other reason than these
because the rebels hate the negro, and
because our government is too pusil-
luminous 10 take measures severe
enough to command respect from the
rebels for colored troops.
From my seat at the foot of a pine
which casts a grateful shade over this
dusty, broilng day, | have full view
of the rebel line of works where on
the 18th Of June the colored troops Of
the 18th corps won for themselves a
fame which will have a record among
the many splendid achievements OF
the Union army. There is the wide
plain, the fallen trees over which they
advanced there are the redans OF
the enemy, the deep bitches, the con
Meeting curtains, the embrasures from
whence eighteen guns belched theli
flames, sweeping the ground with
grape aud canister. II is the field OF
victory. Without faltering, without
ilinching, the colored troops Of Gen
Kinks division moved with tie stead,
mess Of veterans upon those tormida.
! bic works, and carried them at the
/ point of the bayonet, There, at the
Dunn house, enclosed by strong re-
dan, is the hospital. Walk through
those wards with me. There are
several hundred soldiers, all Of them
colored torn by shells, by grape, by
MIME bullets. They bear these wounds
patiently. A few rods distant there
is row Of graves, newly made
They who had no home, no country,
nothing, have found home, a country,
inheritance at last upon ihe battle
4 field. Their country is not here, but
beyond our sight, to be revealed when
we Join them. But are not their
comrades who remain, who are now
in the trenches, where, as | write,
hear the rattle Of muskets and the
/ bursting of bombs-are not they de-
serving Of a country here The fac
that floats above them is not thelrs.--
1t means ncthing. Tous il is a home
comfort, blessings innumerable and
inconceivable; it is life, the symbol
Of everything worth living for, but 10
them it is but the symbol Of vague
underlined, blind hope OF something in
the future. They cannot fight for
home, for country, for Institutions
Standing here upon the ground yet
strown with the wreck of battle-br0'
ken muskeis, cannon balls, unexplod-
cd shels-lhe scene of their victory,
my cheek burns when | recall the
words uttered by a Massachusetts
captain last night, and remember that
our Government and the nation are
not ready to BE- just Or generous 10
the colored race.
Punishment is corrective as well al
retributive. 1t sharpens the con-
science. So, perhaps, when We have
suffered enough-when hundreds and
/ thousands more Of our brave brothers
have fallen-we shall not only demand
from the enemy a recognition Of the
colored troops, but also be willing to
recognize the colored man as entitled
10 the same privileges which we enjoy
under the flag Of our country.
CARLETON.
SHEhLSG CaARLEsToS.--The
following description Of the effect pro
duced BY the shells thrown from our