The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-08-16
From the Raleigh Progress j
Colored Troops.

Colored Troops.
We think the Government would con.
suit its own interest by removing the
negro troops from our towns and villages.
We are subjugated whipped, beaten; and
we desire to be good citizens, peaceable
people, and will support the Government
and obey the laws, if given to understand
what our duties are. But all our preu-
dices can't be overcome in moment,
nor can we in breath transform the ig.
norant African, just set free, into well.
behaved citizen. There has been only
trouble in every town where negro troops
have been stationed in this State, and we
are assured that at this very moment the
most serious outbreaks are considered
i'm minent at Wilmington. Admit that
the colored troops conduct themselves
well and that the discipline is good, and
yet the danger to be appreheuded from
the demoraliz ing influences of their
presence on the negro population, causes
the whites to feel that they are constantly
subject to the bursting forth of an erup-
ton that may engulf all before it. We
are charging nothing upon the military
authorities, nothing upon the Govern
ment-we have nothing but the good of
the State and country at heart, and it is
as the friend of the Administration that
we say these things. The few malcon-
tents in this State make good deal of
fuss, but we do not consider them dan
gerous. .t.
II the Government will put the colored
troops in the forts along the coast, and
garrison such towns as it may be thought
require troops, with white men, there
will be no trouble in North Carolina.
We do not know that there will be trou-
BILE even if the colored troops are retained,
but we do know that our most devoted
Union men, and Northern gentlemen
who have recently settled among US, are
apprehensive on this head, and fear, if
the colored troops be not withdrawn, that
serious outbreaks will occur. We do not
think that there is so much to fear from
the cclored troops themselves, as from the
demoraization of the black citizens,
caused by their presence. If the Gov
ernment will withdraw them, we think
we can assure those in authority that the
happiest results will follow. So far,
every attempt to restore civil authority,
when a town has been garrisoned by
blacks, has been a failure.
What we want now is Cancellation,
harmony and good feeling; and we know
OF nothing that will reconcile all classes
in North Carolina as the withdrawal OF
colored troops. And it is desirable for
the black man as we'll as the white man
that the Government take some pains to
conciliate the people of the insurgent
States, for, if these difficulties conGnue
in the towns and cities until an intense
hatred between the two races shall be
engendered, and open revolt aud war
of colors shall commence, the massacre
vii! be fearful, and the negro will be, in
all probability, the loser.
AS the constant supporter of the Ad-
ministration aud the Jealous friend of
OF the Government we appeal to those in
authority to consider the propriety of
removing the negro troops from our towns
and cities. Our people are not naturally
the enemies of the oolored man, but on
the contrary, most of them are disposed
to treat him justly and kindly, and 10
help him improve his condition but
nothing is surer than that the presence
of colored troops has a bad effect upon
the citizen blacks. We trust that Gov
ernor Holden will urge this thing upon
the President in the name of the people
whose hearts and sympathies have ever
been with the Government and the
Union.
Collision on the Lakes.