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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], From Wilmington. (search)
; put deeds of emancipation in their pockets; march one hundred thousand to Pennsylvania, one hundred thousand to Ohio, and one hundred thousand to Indiana; tell them to spare nothing but the old men, women and children; to live on the country; lay waste as they march; to rob the banks; to take every kind of property they want; to have it as their own; to load every wagon, horse, mule and ox with the spoils, and bring it back to their old homes, and enjoy it and freedom for life. How long would Grant stay at City Point? I have heard officers of high rank say they would cheerfully volunteer to command the negro troops. Under the late law to consolidate companies, etc., hundreds of officers will be without commands, who would willingly command these troops. Let Congress do this, and, in the language of this intelligent Virginian, before next 4th of July the war would end and our independence be acknowledged. Keep the men over forty-five at home and put the negroes in the army. C.