Shreveport news., 1865-01-31

our negroes into the fight. There ART
thousands of our negro men who AZ.
now willing to fight with us, without
any promise of freedom, but 1 am il,
favor Of giving all who serve th-i'
country faithfully in the war free
dom, then the christian world coult
no Fl - fault with US for organizing
and fighting our slaves in defence o.
our homes and liberties. But som'
good and true men will say thai ou'
negro soldiers would not do to rely OIL,
when the hour Of battle comes, be,
l;eve 80 such thing; fortunately for
ms the yankee did fail i'll making
* 2od and reliable soldiers ont Lf our
negroes, to.' the reason that the yam
Ece did not understand negro charac
ter, and consequently did not know
how to Inanag" ti.rsn, and or n-groe>
knew aS lit;lr .,hrnt yankee character
rs til" yam's". knew Of tn" negro.
But that Will not be the case with
us. We fully understand our negroes
and they understand us, and with lit
II, drilling and discipline, they would
| fight for lis 20 the very death, and We
! all know that our stout negro men
can undergo twice til. hardship and
cNp,>ure Of white men men who
make good ard trnsty soldiers, un
der trying circumstances, should be
| mere machines, in fact they must
ne!thcrjudgc northink torthemselvcs.
Oar negroes are Just SO constituted,
they never knew any thing but to
obey the orders of their superiors
and for thinking or Judging for them
S.lvvs. they do not know any thing
about such things. l had rather
comnaIiI a Regiment OF drilled and
discipline: negroes than to command
n Regiment of Generals Of Lees army.
We can place III our armies three
hundred thousand able bodi, d negro
soldiers and have plenty left at home
to produce food for our armies and
people. But have already heard il
said that our Congress had no consti-
tutional authority to emancipate a
portion Of ouc negroes and lcgislate
them into thu. armies. That may be
so. II 80, our State governments
will certainly lose no time in invest
Ing Congress and President Davis
with all necessary authority which
will at an early day enable the gov
rrn,nrut to adopt this line Of policy.
think with Gov. Allen, that the
tim, is net distant when foreign pow
ers will pat a stop to this long con-
tinurd flow Of blood in America
But ~, must HAY. recognition and
independence or all will be lost to us.
We VII have independence and rec
ogniilon. but it av first be Necessary
for liz - change or manner and syS-
TEN Of African slavery. All the
christians and civilized powers of the
earth have clearly shown that they
are rot willing to tolerate our system
OF slavery, and as our government II
hardly Il sp"ck on the map Of the
Great powers, of the world, We can
hardly hope or Il, sire. to rerpe1uatc
a form aut system which they all so
much oppose. am southern BON,
and southern ra,srd, and myself and
family are, ant always have been.
/ drpcuG,ut on slave labor for our daily
Tread, and " hat little Ne possess in
he way o! property, mostly consists
! in negroes. ana no man more than |,
( b-liev.- that our institution Of
slavery !. Of divine urgiu and au-
thority. NuJ Notwithstanding all
/ thi-, am willing t. give up orr in.
~iitution Of slavery tor Independence
and recognition. either immediate or
! gradual, and cannot doubt but that
rhr southern people -n ma-se. had
lnuch rather give W their chcr!s shed
institution than to>rr.the last south
ern soldier perish in this unhos,>
crusaI" which The yankee. are wagin :.
against lis and our property. Web
SER -Iid N one OF E:S great ~prrvb~s,
that once tn American Union Grsoi-
we'd by the secession Of a part OF tic
States from tho "gigina! compact ii
never can be reconstructed. W,
must either gam cur independence ii
some way or other. OF We must ti@h;
on until our last >"idirc i:i!~ in III,
di.ch and then $uhiugation and con
tiScation wouii close the awful scene
Let us dii.iGenti bend al. our en-
rrgieS to strengthening our armies ant
preparing to enter the spring cam
paign with incr asrd forces, and il
the mean time h"r, that the diplo
matte corps will not be idle.
spring titGr, la NJ.