Year: 1865

1uo lOuo~luS ulSuy Interesting eX-
tracts are from the recent message of Gov.
Brown, of Georgia:


WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.


If all the sons of Georgia under arms in 9TH
er States, of which nearly fifty regiments were
in Virginia, besides those in the Carolinas.
Florida, and Tennessee, had been permitted to
meet the foe upon her own soil, without other
assistance Gen. Sherman's army could never
have passed from her mountains to her sea-
board, and destroyed their property and their
homes. He had nearly four hundred miles to
march through an enemy's country he was
entirely dependent upon his wagon train which
he carried with him for supply of ammuni-
after what he had was consumed. Had he been
resisted from the start by a competent force,
and compelled to fight, bis ordnance stores
must soon have beer exhausted, and he forced
to an unconditional surrender. Such another
opportunity to strike the enemy q stunning
blow will not probably occur during the war.


ARMING THE SLAVES.


The administration, by its unfortunate pol
icy, having wasted our strength and reduced
our armies, and being unable to get freemen
into the field as conscrbts, and unwilling to
accept them in organization with officers of
their own choice, will, II is believed, soon re-
sort to the policy of filling them up by the con-
scription of slaves. am satisfied that we
may profitably use slave .abor, so far as it can
be spared from agriculture, to do menial SER
vice in connection with the army, and thereby
enable more free white men to take up arms
but I am quite sure any attempt to arm the
slaves will be great errtr. If we expect to
continue the war successfully, we are obliged
to have the labor of most Of them in the pro-
duction of provisions But if this difficulty
were surmounted, we cannot rely upon them
as soldiers. They are nov quietly serving US
at home, because they do not wish to 90 into
the army, and they fear II they leave us, the
enemy will put them there. If we compel
them to take up arms, thei. whole feeling and
conduct will change, and hey will leave us
by thousands. A single PROCLAMATION by Presi
dent Lincoln-that all who desert US after they
are forced into service and 90 over to him,
shall have their freedom, be taken out of the
army, and permitted to &c into the country
in his possession, and receive wages for their
labor-would disband them " brigades. What
ever may be our opinion of their normal con-
dition or OF their true interest, we cannot ex-
pect them If they remain with US, to perform
deeds of heroic valor when they are fighting
to continue the enslavement Of their wives and
children. 1t is not REASONABLE for us to de
mand 1t of them, and we have little cause to-
expect the blessing of Heavier upon our efforts
if we compel them to perform such q task. If
we are right, and Providence designed them
for slavery, He did not design that they should
be o military people. Whenever we establish
the fact that they are q military race, we de-
stroy the whole theory that they are unfit to
be free


But it is said we should give them their free
dom in case of their fidelity to our cause in the
field; in other words, that we should give up
slavery, as well as our personal liberty and
State sovereignty, for independence, and should
set all our slaves free If they will aid us to
achieve it. If we are ready to give up slavery,
l ann satisfied that we can make it the conside-
ration for a better trade than to give it up for
the uncertain aid which they might afford us
IN the military field. When we arm the slaves
we abandon slavery. We can never again
govern them as slaves. and make the institn.
ton profitable to ourselves or to them. after
tens of thousands of them have been tauoht
the use OF arms, and spent years in the indo-
lent indulgencies of camp life.


THE FINANCES, ETC.


Our financial affairs have been so unfortu.
nately administered that our currency is worth
very little in the market; and our public faith
has been so frequently and willfuiIy violated
that it will be with great difficulty that we can
reinspire our people with confidence in the
pledges OF tie government 1t is announced
as the future policy of the financial depart
ment to issue no more treasury notes and to
receive nothing else in payment of public dues
till the quantity is reduced to healthy circula-
ton. This would be beneficial to the holders
OF the notes. As the armies are TO be support
ed, however, at the cost of hundreds of mill
ions OF dollars per annum, the announcement
leaves no doubt that it Is to be done in great