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The African on the sea — his Agency in this war.
A late paragraph from Northern papers announces that some thirty vessels of war of the Federal navy are waiting for crews, and that in order to supply them Mr. Secretary Welles has determined to place negroes aboard of them as common sailors.
One thousand blacks, enlisted in Maryland for the army, have been disbanded, prior to placing them on board of some of these vessels.
It is well understood that the African has very much disappointed the Yankee in the army.
He does well as a brutal guard over Confederate prisoners — shooting one occasionally; he does better as a plunderer and general ruffian amongst an overrun Southern population, submitted to his mercy.
But in the deadly conflict, on the battle field, he is a failure.
He has never stood up well to be shot at. The Yankees have tried to force him into fight, as well as screen themselves from what they would rather avoid — the impetuous attack of Confederate soldiers —
The alternative presented to the South.
The Rev. Mr. Hall, in a lecture lately delivered in this city on the "Historical Significance of the present Revolution," related the following incident in the life of Daniel Webster, which has never before appeared in print:
In 1850, Mr. Webster, in the course of a conversation with some gentlemen of Maryland, remarked "A terrible crisis is at hand.
The mass of the Northern people have been educated in anti-slavery doctrines, and are thoroughly abolitionist in sentiment.
They will demand of the South that their doctrine of abolitionism be accepted by them.
I urge you, gentlemen of the South, to go among your people and beg them to accede to this demand on the part of the North.
They are resolved on it, and unless the South yield, the country is ruined." The reply was, that when the demand was made, the sword would be drawn and the issue decided with that.
If there be a single man in the whole Confederacy who still believes