Year: 1863

probability, it would be with . negro arm,

 Their fidelity and their respect for the whit

 race would alike keep tight the bonds of mil i tary authority, now so loose at tile North. Tn

 negroes would be Seapoys without any dispo siti0n to treachery, and with more than tn

 Seapoy physique. Moreover. they would

 even less exposed to the malaria and exhaus,

 ion of the Southern climate than the Southern

 ers themselves. Again. the negro just release l from slavery, would thankfully accept 10, i wages in the Northern army, instead of tn

 enormous bounty and pay now claimed b every white volunteer; and they would be a l easy to satisfy with wholesome rations of any

 kind as the present army is hard. Every ele

 inent of the soldier is to be found in the nc

 gro, unless it be natural military tastes. an,

 this the cause now supplies. There is physi cal strength and body ased to unlimite,

 hardships. There is deference of spirit, clan ship as between man and man, aud affection ate fidelity to supcriors. There is the willin

 hand without the meddling head, and th

 greatest of all motives for desperate valor. But next. large auxiliary negro arm. would help to solve great political problem Under the Presidenf3 emancipation policy, great number of negroes must be attracted northwards, and the greatest jealousy is fell by the Northern laborer lest they should re duce his normal wages. By employing them freely in the army this danger would be par tially averted, and great boon conferred on the Northern laborer, who dreads the drafting policy of the administration. In this way the hali-reluctant States of the North would be reconciled to the first steps of the emancipation policy-and if, as we hope, the regiments thus formed should prove the most effective and best disciplined in the army, the military pride of the North would soon convert them to the Presidents policy--for no susceptibility ol caste would be hurt by the glory of black reg ments with whit, commissioned officers-the unjust rule of war being that all display oi public gratitude is lavished on the leader, how ever much is due to the followers.

 But not only would this policy enormously lower the cost of the army, spare the labor of the North, aud reconcile the democrats to emancipation-but it might be made one oi the most powerful elements in what we may call the foreign policy of the war; for there would be no better means of avoiding all the dangers of servile insurrection than passing the fugitive slaves through the discipline of a military regime. The least indulgence of pri- vate license or vindictiveness might then be punished by instant death without any undue austerity. In no way could a severer control be kept over the risks of emancipation on a large scale. And thus the natural European suspicion of all sudden emancipation would be best removed. Nor would this be all. One result of such a measure would be still more important. A negro army once established, would probably become the nucleus of the permanent military syste.n of the North-and SD most important cheek upon the South. Of course, We are assuming what all English men now assume, that absolute suhjugation of the South is a dream, that the war is g ques- tion of boundaries-a question, IS nlathena- ticinns would say, of the maximum extent of the slave power. Now, assuming this, what could be more important. more decisive for the slavery p,licy of tho South, than the existence of negro army across the l'order- capable of large increase, and ready and eager to act in all causes involving the extension or limitation of slavery? The knowledge of such fact would be by fur the most effective check on slavery propagandism hat could be exerted by the agency of human fcar'

 In whatever light we contemplate the ducs- ton, the principles involved in the creation of a negro army seem to us mos. pregnant of weighty result and gradual political transform ations. But if the Northern statesmen will never look beyond ths hour, what can save them ? Foresight and combination are only less needful than strict justice in dealing with the emancipation of the ''irrepressible ne. gro.'