Hide Article Text (OCR)
OAIX.1l JOUR^AI*.OGtimSBTJRQB, MARCH 1, 1865. i^ Price Five Cents. «Tfa© Nigger Soldier Qststloa ta Hi^o;The defeat of the bill before the rebel Con-gress, providing for the employment of 20D,-000 slaves la the rebel armies, has called forth; a terrible howl front the F. F-’s of old, Virginia, who taunt thegulf states by whoseTotes it has been brought about,, with desertion of the Confederate cause. ID i bo where we print a significant article from the Richmond En#wirerf upon this subject, not that It presents any new ideas, but for the value*ofthe admissions it contains.. When'old Virginia was halting between her .duty Jo theUnion, and the overbearing propensity ofher slave breeders to rule or ruin, the statesmen of'tbs free states in more emphatic language than Is now employed by the Engrim,told of the fate, which should certainly follow secession. She took the slep deliberately, and with her eyes open, as is now trcciyadmitted. It is most-emphatically true that in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee thereare now no slaves, and in Virginia the institution has nomicially but a name, all from the natural tendency of the war. Al! loyal men foresaw this, on th8 very day the South Carolinians opened the war, by firing upon the national ensign in Charleston Harbor.— Nothing but the madness of infatuationcould have impelled a people to aim such a terrible blow at the heart of an institution, which they worshipped above their love to their flag.The employment ol negroes in the rebel armies would not avert for a single day the fate of the Confederacy, and the effort to procure them is merely the grasp of thedrowning mac, at a fancied straw. The Virginians have been so terribly used by the grinding effects of the war, that they are no longer iu condition to entertain a sober, sensible idea. From one extent to another, her fields have been plowed by shot and shell,her forests swept away, her cities battereddown, her hamlets and villages are smoking ruins, her railroads destroyed, her rivers have run red with her heart’s blood, and she is literally one vast grave-yard, where rot thethe remains of her sons who had courage enough, to interpose between their state, andthe tornado they had raised. With her white population killed off, and her negroes gone away, it is not strange that the cowards who have managed thus far to dodge the army and* the bullets,.should desire to see the rest of the rebel states to also commit harf Icari. The Enquirer's article is a completevindication of me position assumed by theRepublican party at the commencement ofthe War, aod although it is a sort of a deathbed coofesaroo, it will be found none the less confirmatory of the predictions of the lead ing men of the party. If secession has produced the reality of the picture of the En-: guvrer, me arming of their slaves wbuld em* btliiau it with a .horror, not to be found in the annals of the world’s history.e:clt;e«P
Newspaper Details
Ogdensburg Daily Journal
Ogdensburg, New York, US
Wed, Mar 01, 1865
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
FL, USA 13 Jul 2022
Other Publications Near Ogdensburg, New York
Ogdensburg Journal
Ogdensburg Advance and St Lawrence Weekly Democrat
Ogdensburg Daily Sentinel
Ogdensburg Daily Journal
Ogdensburg Advance
