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In justice to General Lee, it deserves to be remembered hereafter that the employment of negro soldiers is not a recent suggestion of his, made at the eleventh hour.
We believe that for a long time he has foreseen the necessity which has now to declare that negroes could not be made soldiers, and before that fact had been demonstrated in the Federal armies, General Lee understood their military capacities, and would gladly have availed himself of this unemployed element of military str the Federal service might be in our own ranks, and the result of this contest be no longer doubtful.
The plan of General Lee has been, and still is, to hold out to this class of our population stronger inducements than can be presented by the s in the world, they are going to make a present of one of them to the blacks!
We feel entirely confident that if General Lee's statesmanlike counsels had been adopted a year ago, the future freedom of Southern white men would be no longer a qu