Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-01-18
Arminx tia Slavea.

C1rolinian, in which that paper says
We would have each State provide homestead
Tor the black soldier on his return home-ths as y
reward. And then We would give him freedom -
means Of enjoying the property given him. We
would give him tho right to hold any species Of
property which white man could hold"
Such is the doctrine put forth by public jour
nal in the MIDST Of = slaveholding people. Aside
from the vrstched war policy which it urges, it is
abolition doctrine and incendiary in its character.
is Lincoln doctrine It is the very doctrine which
this. war was commenced to put down. Surely we
oaght to have peace now, since extremes have
meti-snce the partizans Of Mr. Lincoln and the
partizans Of Mr. Davis have united not only in the
advocacy of abolition, but N the same means of
effecting it'll Negroes are not only to be conscript
Cd and placed in camp and on the field on'a level
with our white soldiers, but they to have their
freedom and . homestead At the end of the war, as
their reward The negro soldier is to have home
stead, but tho white soldier is promised uothingl-
No homestead is to be provided for him. His wife
and children, already oeggared by the war, must
toll on, and the children must grow up in ignorance
ard rags, because he is white; bat the negro is to
have his freedom and homestead the negro is to be
of fifty battles on his body is to be turned Otto work
as tenant if he have no land and must be jostled
and nsulted IN has neighborhood as long be lives,
by bis black comrade who is to have homestead
provided for him by the STAG! If this is not ne.
gropho6ia run mad, We know not what is. Why,
our enemies have not yet proposed to divide our
lands among our negroes. Aggressive and harsh
as they are they have appeared disposed thus fur
to spare US this humiliation They offer freedom
to our slaves, but not homesteads. But if they
should 20 farther hereafter and tell our slaves that
if they will abandon their masters and fight Under
their 1ag they will give them our lands as their
reward, they might plead the above offer as an ex
tenuation of their crime, and declare to the world
that some Of our own leading journals had set them
the example BY proposing such policy.
The Confederate, in copying the Carosiniaa's
article, says:
"Withou. concurring entirely in the sentiments
therein contained, there IS much to commend it to
the public Since the attest of our military leaders
from two points of observation has declared in favor
of the employment of negro soldiers, the spirit of
the press is very properly conforming to this stand.
ard authority. OF the right, We never doubted; of
! the expediency We now convinced If the South.
! OPPS"ASN
ducements to enlist his sympathies, We doubt not
either his capacity, his willingness, his 6dei
| ty; and with this element of strength our lnde-
pendence is certain. The soldiers arc amos! una1-
inmous in favor Of it: They need renforcements,
and their soishss ought to be . controlling nhu-
| ence."
1t is not true that the press of the country is
"contorming to this standard authority" A poor,
contemplate, subsidized press, many of whose Ed
itors are detailed men, are CONFORMING" under or
ders, as we admit, to this black standard, but
the FREQ presses of the land, whose Editors speak
for the people instead Of power, regard the propo-
sition with adherence Nor is it trne that the me-
gro possesses either sufficient capacity, willingness,
or fidelity to make good soldier. No race Of men
at least, who are capable of commanding. But it
is admitted on all hands that white officers m ust
command black soldiers; otherwise the black SOL
diers are worthless This expodes the idea that they
have capacity. As to their willingness they would
show it at oncs by taking to the woods soon as
they heard OF the order for their CONSUMPTION; and
so far as their fidelity is concerned, the few who
might be forced into the ranks would illustrate that
by deserving to the enemy. Nor is it true tina:
the soldiers are in favor of arming the slaves. On
the contrary, they regard it not only as insult
to Themselves. but as fraught with the most alarm
ing consequences to their families at home
But writer in the Confederate, over the classic
signature of b. K. B., caps the climax of absurdty
by proposing to reward the negro for his services
a. soldier by allowing him "by law ration O
tobacco, sugar, and whiskey, for life'-an "extr'
suit of ornamental clothing once year." with
stipulation that he is to have every Saturday il
the year" to himself Was the like ever heard o
| before! Cuffee is to Is haw his own backer"-
drink his own vhskey, sweetenedswith his OWL
sugar and he is to have license to Go as he please
, in his ornaments "every Saturday in the year,
Shades of Washington, of John Taylor of Caroline
of Macon, and of all other worthless who, in thei
day, possessed some common sense! The whiskey
We imagine, is designed to improve his MORALS
Such small things as reading his Bible, and receiv
ing religious instruction, and hearing " old master
or "oi mistress" expound his duties the duties o
his wife and children and his relations to his Maker
are not accounted worthy of this ornamental
negro but he is to have whiskey in lieu of all these
Fortunate African tho very kinks in his beat
. would become straight under such treatment
r course our government chapains would ask bles
sing on the whiskey; and all, good people woul'
8 admonish this "ornamentar' African, with seyers
scars upon his back, honorably received in des
perate run from the enemy, that be must drink 4
l. least as much as the law allowed. And he woul.
drink it Society would have pleasant time will
these interesting relics. They would be orna
. ments" indeed.
The Destructive leaders are certainly very fertil
in expedients to keep themselves out of the war
First, peaeeable secession was to give US indepen
dence then King Cotton was to do it, then foregl
Intervention was to do it next should csrtainl.