The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-05

liquors are not sold. Col. Young puts
into practice the principles that have al
ways characterized his personal habits,
and with the best of results to his re-
giment.
had the pleasure of meeting Capt.
s. Babcock, Assistant Adjutant General
of the Brigade, who has know this re-
giment since it was mustered into the
service. He speaks of it in the highest
terms. / also met Major John A. Lo-
gan, the Provost Marshall, and had a
long interview with him. He said the
Third North Carolina was well-bchav-
ed regiment, and that he had not arrest
ed a larger per cent of men from this
regiment than from any other regiment,
and that l was at liberty to publicly
use this statement.
While in the sleeper on my way home.
| fell in with Capt. j. G. Gresham, of
the Seventh cavalry. Capt. Gresham is
a native of Virginia, graduate of
Richmond College and West Point, and
has served many years in the regular
army. He was with Colonel Forsyth in
the battle with Sioux at Wounded Knee
South Dakota. | had met him previous
ly. when / was in the United States
Indian Service in Kansas. He informed
me that he mustered in the first four
companies of the Third North Carolina
and the Colonel and his staff, and that
he had never met a more capable man
than Colonel Young.
The Third North Carolina has never
seen active service at the front, and, as
the Hispano-American war is practically
a closed chapter, it will probably be mus
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knowledge of actual warfare. / thought,
however. as / stood on the dry goods box
and gave them kindly advice. and look
ed down along the line, that if | was
a soldier in white regiment and was
pitted against them, my regiment would
have to do some mighty lively work to
''clean them out"
CHARLES FRANCIS MESERVE.
Shaw University. Raleigh. y. c., Janu-
airy 25th 1899.
Per contra, we append two editorials
IS IT THE END?
ATLANTA constitutional
The Washington Post refers to the
mastering out of the Sixth Virginia reg
iment (colored and others, as the end
of an experiment" 1t was intended that
these negro regiments should go to the
Philippines, but such has been their
conduct that they have been under
guard good part of the time since their
enlistment last summer. First the COM
panies had colored officers, but as these
could not control the men, white officers
were substituted. Still discipline could
not be secured, and now the regiment
has been mustered out--a fact which
leads The Post to characterize the enlist
ment of negro volunteers as ''the end of
an experiment"
A part of these colored troops passed
through Atlanta Tuesday night, and a
number of them, not satisfied with the
disgrace brought upon their race by
their previous conduct, undertook to
raise row under the shack known as
the earshed. The police in the vicinity
cared nothing for the row, as row,
but they were afraid that any loud rack
ct would cause the roof of the shack to
tumble down, or be the occasion of
smothering some innocent person in the
quagmires between the tracks. So when
the noble troops came forth breathing
vengeance and threatening TO tear up Il
town that SHERMAN had already burned
down." they were put to sleep as gently
as possible by clubs and billies. and the
town, as well as the passenger shack
was in its accustomed place yesterday.
morning
This, however, was but a trifing cpl
sode in the experiment which The Post
hopefully says has come to an end. We
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country does not need any such expert
ments. and it has always been a cause
of extreme astonishment to those who
understand the nature of the average
negroes Of the present day, that the au-
thorities undertook to make volunteers
of them and then proceeded to quarter
them where their presence would be a
source of terror to women and children.
The negro regulars were bad enough, as
their savage depravity at Tampa showed
when they looted the town; but the
regulars do know what discipline is, and
on rare occasions can be made to con-
form TO discipline.
As for the negro volunteers, it is as
The Washington Post says-''it has been
made too plain that they are not adapted
to the conditions of modern civilization,
and that to equip and arm them, and to
apply them to anything save actual and
continuous warfare, is to make a GER
tainty Of offense against every inter-
est of enlightened and organized society"
This is true. The spectacle that the
negro troops made of themselves on all
occasions, except in actual warfare at
Santiago, is calculated to leave a bad
taste in the mouths of thoughtful men;
and If it has not opened the eyes of the
men who are responsible for it, it is be
cause they are blind indeed
In many matters it is necessary to go
slow, and TO betray extreme prudence
and caution. The experiment of negro
volunteers will not come to an end un-
less the politicians can be brought to
see the nature of the mistake they have
made in this matter Of colored volun-
teers. They have not helped the ne
gro and the negro's cause; but quite the
contrary.
A HAPPY RADIANCE.
(Atlanta Journal0
The army and the country are to be
congratulated on the mastering out of
the Third North Carolina regiment.
A tougher and more turbulent set of
pnpTnas xyapa r1paha hly MAYOR cotton TO-