Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-01-19
grafton to the pFsspfissY o. a ras9seai mod
.iiieatiuia in tba lhusEysof sha aaa.

Grafton To tie pFspfi ~ o. 4 ras1scmi mod
iSeatinla in tba tboorvaof aha las.
Viewed merely as fsoperty. and, there.
fore, as the sahjest vi smpFessmans. the
service or labor Of tAs slave has beer
frequently claimed fg shorE periods u
the construction on dafepsige Rorks. The
Stare, however, heass another seHatfUn 70
the stats-~thas of person. The law oil
last February eoatemptases ealy the rela.
tien Of the slave to the master. and lia.-
iss The impressment 10 i cestaia term Of
service. But for the Purposes enumcra
trd in the act, instruction. In the manner
OF encanpiags aarshiag and parking
tsaius Is needfal, so that even In this
limited employment length Of service
adds greatly To the Talae IF tie negro's
labor. Hazard is also saeeuptRed ia ali
the p1siiiens to which aegroes can be
assigned for seryica With the army, and
the duties required OF them demand 10y
aftyand zeal. In this aspect the relation Of
person predolninsses 10 fer as 60 Yeuder
IN dabsfal whsshsr the Esvsgata saxAa OF
property consistently and beneHeaIiy
be continued, and il weuld seem proper
70 acquire FOR the public service the en-
tire property 10 the labor OF the slave,
and 70 pay therefore das eomptnsaGion,
rather than TO impress his labor for short
terms and ibis the more especially as
the effect cf tho present law would vess
the entire property in all cases where che
slave might be raeaptnFad afEsr rsEapen.
sasion for bis loss had been paid Do the
private owuer. WheneYer the antire
in the service al a shave Is thus
acquires by the GeyerHment, ths ques-
sioa is presented By what tenGars be
should be hell. Shoald be b. retained In
servituds, or should bis emsacipatlo be
held out to him rs a rewari for faithful
service, or should il be granted at once
on the PROMISE VI saeh eerxiee; and If
emanicpated, whas action should be taken
to secure for the freedman The pe.nission
Of the State from which be vas with.
drawn 20 reside Within ths liuats ufser
the close Of his pablie sefriees The per
mission would doubtless be mere readily
accorded as reward fof past faithful
service, and q double motive for zcal11s
of daty would thus be offered
to those employed BIZ the Government,
their Freedom aud ttss Qualification of the
which ID so marked char
aeirristie Of iha negro, and forms SO pow-
erful an ineastise 10 his action. The
policy OF engagcing 10 hberate the ne
gro on bis discharge after service faith
fully rendered, seems TO me preferable to
that Of granting inmediate maDumission.
Or that of Estaining bin in sergitude. If
THE pslic3 shonld recommend itssf TO
The judgment of Congress, it Is suggest
ed that, in addition to the duties hereto.
fore performed by the slave, might be
adEantageously employed as pioneeF and
sBgineer labezer; and, il lha& evens, that
the number should be aGigu suled % for
y thousand. #-I..
Beyond this limit aad those employ
nents it does not seem I'd me desirable
nndeF existing circumstances, TO 3D. A
broad, moral distiust59n exists between
.Ae use OF slaves at soldiers in the &C.
feEce OF their homes, aad IEa incitsm sHt
Of the same persons 10 iusurEecti6n a
gainst their masters. The enc is iasti-
cable If necessary the other 10 iniqait-
Gus and unworthy Of q ciyilsed people; and
such is the Judgment OF all writer's Of
public law, rs we'll ns thai expressed AMI
insisted on BY our enemies in al wars
prior to that now waged against ns. By
none hare the practices, of which they
arc now guilty, been denounced With
gEeater severity thao themselves in the
Two wars with Great Britain ia tho Inst
and in the present century !; and in the
Declaration Of Independehea Of l7T6,
when enumeration Was made of the
wrongs which Justified the revolt from
Great Britain, the climax Of atfoeity was
deemed to be renehed only when the En-
giish monarch was deaounced as having
.'excitcd domestic insurectian among
u.s."
The subject is to be viewed by ms,
soseiy in the light of policy
and our social economy. When 80 re-
carried, must dissent from tSose who
advise agenosal levy aad aiming of the
slaves for the duty of soldiers. Until
our white population SHALL prove insult
cicnt for the armies We require and can
affird to keep irfthe fell, 10 employ as a
soldier the negro, who bas merely been
trained ID labor and as laborer, for the
white man accustomed from bis youth to
the use of fire. arms, would scarcely be
deemed wise or advantageous BIZ hu8;
and this is the question noF betSra as.
But should the alternative ever BE- presen-
ted Of subjugation or the employment of
the slave ~ soldier, there seems no
reason to doubt what shoall then ba our
decision. Whether our view embraces
what would, in 80 extreme ! case, be the
sum Of misery ensailea bY the dominion
Of the enemy, or be restricted solely &c
the effect upon the we8Fate and happiaess
Of the negro population themselves, the
result wuald be ths same, The appall-
ing Decentralization, s8hersng, disease
and death which have been caused By
partially substituting ths lnYsaets' sy4-
TEN Of policy for the kind relation pre-
viouFly snhsisting betFeenl the master
and slave have been sufficient denaop-
sgralion that external interssrenee with
ohr fnstisation OF domest1c slavery is
productive OF erii enly. II the sui iect
involved no other consideration than the
mere right of property, the sacrifices
made by cur people have BEEN
such as tb permit DO doubt Of their real-
iness To sarrendef every possession in or
der to secure their Independence. Bot
the social and political question, vhieh Is
exclusively under the control Of the scv--
eral States, has q far wider and more en-
daring importaaee than that Of pecuInary
interest 10 It's manifold phases II en-.
braces the stability Of our republican In.
resting On the actual Political
equality nf ell its citizens, and iHtsndes
The fuiIiIment OF lhe task which has been
30 happity beguri-that Of chrislianiaisg
and improving the condition Of the AIri-
cans xko hasrs By the will Of Prssidenca,
been placed ID car charge. Cpmparing
the results of our own experienced win
those Of the esperisaents Of esAsfs who
have borne similar relation 10 the Aftit