Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-04
Negro-ArminH Mt the South Slavery
10 he its own ExecutiOner.

10 DC us own HAcCutdOhOEs
The negro arming advocates in rebel
dom are growing bold and persistent with
every new disaster. They may be called
the talking men of the Confederacy, in
contradistinction to the fighting men for
they seem to be composed, largely, of
those who, not having fought, do not
wish to be compelled to do so. They
argue that, as the war must go on, more
men must be obtained from some quarter,
to fight; and this necessity will involve
their own CONSUMPTION, unless the negro
is brought into play.
There is another class, however, who
are for arming the negroes, or rather, for
a policy which will render the shareholders
indifferent as to what shall become of
their slaves. This class is composed of
those who advocate the abolition of sla-
very as the price of European recognition.
This act would most assuredly lead to ne
gro-arming; for, if the slaves are freed
they may as well be taken into battle: as.
according to Southern logic, free negro
is Just about the most useless breathing
machine to be found outside the limits of
Yankeedom, and so might as we'll be
killed off at once as to be left to linger
out an improbable and pestilential
life.
This growing spirit of practical aboli-
tionism at the South-for negro-arming is
nothing less-ensures the ultimate extir-
mination of Slavery, however the war
may result. And strict retributive justice
would require that the South should be so
driven to extremities as to be compelled,
ITSELF for self-preservation, to abolish an
institution whose perpetuation was cx-
pected to be achieved through the agency
of the war. And then, when this end
has been reached, through its own agency,
there should be superadded to it the hu-
miliationof compulsory submission to the
lawful authority of the United States.
There would be something grandly dra-
matte in such termination of the war
for the pen of the historian. 1t would
reveal the hand of a higher power than man
in shaping and controlling events, and in
rendering them subservicnt to the highest
and hottest principles of justice and hu-
manity. And to this complexion this
bloody tragedy may come at last. Not
only may Slavery become its own execu-
toner; but Shareholders, in their madness
and desperate extremity, may voluntarily
adjust the rope which is to strangle the
monster. There have been parallel incl
dents in history; but none upon so grand
a scale or fraug hit with such mighty con-
sequences to civilization and the future of
the world. ". ....... ...r
Let.the South. then, arm the negroes,
by all means-whether to save cowardly
white men from fighting, or as preliml-
nary to complete emancipation for the
purpose of purchasing recognition from
the monarchies of the Old World. Either
alternative will ultimate in the universal
abolition of Slayery-a result which we
most devoutly believe Providence intend
ed to accomplish by this war, and which
no human sagacity, cunning or strategy
can avert. Every step forward which
Freedom has ever taken, in any age of the
world. has involved the shedding of
martyr blood, and her grand advance in
our own day, which is to be signalized by
the liberation of four million slaves, is to
form no exception to the universal rule.
The compensation now, as always, for
this sacrifice. will be ample and glorious.
A reconstructed Union, free, from center
to circumference. will be sufficient re-
ward for all it will have cost in blood and