The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1865-02-08

better to give the military authorities dis
cretion 10 take as many as the public ser.
wee may require. tAan 70 prescribe the
number.
The ques,ioa being ordered, the motion
70 strike seu1 WAS carried ayes 49,. noes
Mr.. Foster, of Alabama, msyed to strik.
out fsrty five and insert forty, so that the
slaves 50 impressed shall b. from those be-
tween the age. OF eighteen and forty. The
notion was adopted-yeas 81. noes 3B.
Mr.. Turner, st North Carolina, said he
iouked upon the bill as 4 project 10 arm
the slaves. The President had declared in
tavor ol it. When he gets them in the arr
my as leamsters asd cooks he can make
them drill as well as cook, or perform any
other duty. He would be willing to sur.
render the slaves Tor independence. Ths
only objection he had to making soldiers
Of slaves was. that they would not fight ON
our aide; they would prove the eaem,'.
best allies in accomplishing our overthrow
and desirnctisn. s
Nc. TUNER said the cauntry had been
tao long znd too sflen deluded and dsceiy.
ed BY Presldrntial plans. projects and
prophrsirs. Ne one Of his prophesirs had
seen fulfilled; no one of his projects or
plans had proved successful.
YET the President proposes new and
dangerous schemes with undated conf.
dence 10 his own judgment. When Su
sauna the cdok, Junatnsn, 05eGiah and
Corporal Trim seated themselves at the
kiirhes ere for talk. the corporal said fol
his part he never wondered al anything hi.
awn Judgment had deceived him SO often
in LIE. that he suspected it. right or wrong
and now n never allowed himself To We,
| hot Upon cold subjects. Not 20 with IN,
President. Hs grows hot upon cold sub.
jects. aud cold upon hot subjects. He i,
noa cold upon the once hot subject Of alb
sl,lIon.
The country was beginning to learn thai
all The abslltloaists were not in the Noalh
aud our own President had praposed aboIi
,ion in Way that created suspicion as t,
his soundness.
MIR. Turner sad il wss time that Cen
gress should express their opinios upar
afning slaves. and stamp upnn il the ihdel
isr Stigma OF puDilc a5horrence
| Nc. dilrs, nl SOU h t'stolins, movet, a,
an amendment, To insert in the second sec
ton. after the camp nsaiiun clause, IN,
.srds "nst 10 exceed elshleea dsllars PEE
nnnih |" Adopted.
Nj. Gnade. ni virgia,a. offered the FOL
loalng ~ al amendment 10 the third sec
ton:
Progided. further. That such impres,
meat shall b. made under rules and resu
'atinnr of the Stat, whrre impressed, an,
II there shall he 40 suIh rules, then cnle
rules ani regulations to he prescribed D.
the Seer, tars III War" Adup'sd.
Mr.. j. r Leach, of Narth Carolina
thought II wuuId br far better il the %
vernmrni would leave The rxecutinn o
.nme af is laws 70 The people a, hume
There MAS tao much Of brass buitoa an,
baysnet rule IN the country. The Ian
was alive with them. They were as ihicl
., lerusts in Egypt. Richmond was ful
Of then. Even IN his little IOWA ihey wer
:. thick thar hescould not walk without be
ing rlbosed of The street by them.
\ Mr.. Leach .aid he feared that if this Bill
passed the negroes raised under il woul
be employed ss soldiers. He VAS unaIirr
ably opposed TO such measure. lie be
lieved that the day on which such q polio
was adopted would sound the death kne
Of our cause. II would make a San Do
mingo of our land.
Mr.. Ramsay. ef North Carollns. said,
relieve the matter Of all doubt, he woul
Offer The following amendment:
"Propiasi. That said slaves shall not
armed or used as soldiers"
], Mr. Miles. of sonth Carolina, land Chsil
, man of the Military Comnlittee) said h
had given his most earnest and painful cor
} sideratIan TO the subject-the arming an
employment Of negroes as soldiers. II
J hale sd xueh 4 ma sarq WAS fnau.vhf on M