The New York herald., 1865-03-12
Dsboae in the Rebel Senate ON the Negro
Enlistment Bill.
SENATE


TrEsDAy, March I, 1885,
me Senate was called TO order ecven o'clock in the
- Special order being the House b ITO increase the
Dary forces Of the Confederate States that bill
- taken up and read as folows:-
saA 70 McazAss TEE MILITARY roKcKs ov rns cosrEDE
n. coure.. Of the confssrs sr1s States of Amerc. do
80, nsin.i" .Ss shss pss.s::on 3 ,se cSnfsSsr.ss
,ss dsn. s Be- and he hsrSy authorized
$ Hs SaTo mn S . e e r. T"
and during the war TO perform military service in what
g That the Chief be authorized to organize
- d slas e Into comranies bait. ons regiments and b
may prescribe and be commanded by such officers as
Ga Ths, while Employed in the service the sad troops
Secsys me sane ,aSns o1thns IN and & as
That under sss p.ey,Gu: section: Of ,h. The
SsSs 70 pr":.cass Tho war saeesuuy and main, In The
"a: s.ss then as hereby aa.so.i.sa % can .aeh
hundred shoasaad troops In addition 70 those s"5es
.i;sry service under existing laws er 50 many thereof
q e. .. tspsyG Of color each
change tic which sand sLyes shall
sS.ss y which sAsy may reside and o. Inc
NJ HUNTER said that as he had been instructed by tho
vgnia Legislature 10 vote against his conviction, Il
Dgper that ne should give public expression 10 his opn
IN ,s ~ % seS s E.
~ body he desired to place the responsibility Of the
nsasure should become law Until this morning he had
= friends had suggested that justice himself required
as he sho ID do He would necessarily have to
nuch the same ground as when kindred measure
gently Under discussion In secrt session. Wken re Lf
- sd 0ovsr Enea hs had hoght thai lad gotten sd
svsr e slavery gys tim; that We were entering into
sew confederacy Of homo States upon ,he aga
taR gf the slavery question, which had be ONO
kis,s-abIs under the old Union, was TO have
p place. But to his surprise no finds that this
WNaA rSxa ahA IN fhr Sln
SAica involves also the power Of emancipation.
- the agitation Of this question, the assump ion
ss~ ovsSspreads our % psopis fhey knew that our lib
se were 70 be achieved was TO be done by the hearts
~ hands Of free men Il also injured us abroad II
~ regarded confession Of despair and abandon
eat q the ground which we had seceded from the
~ Union We had insisted that Congress had right
= interfere with slavery and upon the coming into
0sw OF the party who il was known would assume and
exercise that power seeded We hid also then
osnded that whenever the two races were thrown to
eoeher must BE- master and the other slave, and
validated ourselves against the accusations Of the abo
siouiss by asserting tha, slavery the best and hap
sd n. q hs pS
- slaves into tho militia and TO emarc pate at least
Amy o. shall b. placed In the military service II is
ooS claim Of the central government 10 emanapste tho
Avss II We are right in passing ihiy measure
eee ss..yay 10; ;as OIL yeserhmcnt the right 70 in
iss with hc INSTITUTION of slavery and TO cinsncpae
Doen We confess that we're ms nccro were hypocri
- asserting that slavery the beet statc for the
- central government had power over the institution
y slavery, and that freedom would be no boon 10 tho
asUo He now believed as he hsa rbrmcrly sad in dis.
Sssion on the samo subject that Nsu'pg and emancpat
~ The slaves uvs an coInd ne99 y Gi contea--an
Abandonment Of the grounds upd3swhich Il had been
paderaken II this u so who Is answer for the hun
6rsds Of thousands Of men who lad he slain In tho
Xarf Who was TO answer for them before the bar Of
1esvcns Not those who had into the
0rncple and adhered 70 the principle but those who had
Sbandoncd the prn iple Not for all tho gold In CaIifor
tia would he have put his name TO such measure as
)Ais unless obliged 10 do by instructions Az long as
- free 10 vote from his own convictions nothing
could have extorted from him. Mr. Hunter then ar.
gued the necessity OF freeing the negroes they we're
tade soldiers. There was something In the human
heart and head that tells must be so when thoy
came out SCARED from this conflict they must be II
could make them soldiers the condition OF the sol
rSsr being socially equal TO any other In society,
t0sh make them officers, perhaps, TO command VIII 70
nen. Some future ambitious President might use the
hAyes v ssEs the liberties II Ne country and put ths