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Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 146
sideration, that gentleman proceeded to express his views in its support. He said that the resolution offered by him only declared an abiding confidence in our citizen-soldiery to maintain our cause, and they needed no other assistance than they were receiving from all other classes of our population. In other words, his resolution declared that they did not need the assistance of negro troops. When the President proposed to put forty thousand negroes in the field — when the member from Tennessee favored it — when the member from South Carolina said he had not made up his mind about it — the question could no longer be evaded. It must be met. The question had been raised at the end of a campaign the most successful that had ever been vouchsafed the Confederate arms. If our army was prostrated and our people threatened with subjugation — but not till then — he could understand how such a proposition could be made. But why is the country agitated by it now, when the military
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 146
lation. In other words, his resolution declared that they did not need the assistance of negro troops. When the President proposed to put forty thousand negroes in the field — when the member from Tennessee favored it — when the member from South Carolina said he had not made up his mind about it — the question could no longer be evaded. It must be met. The question had been raised at the end of a campaign the most successful that had ever been vouchsafed the Confederate arms. If our armylmighty. Emancipation would be the destruction of our social and political system. God forbid that this Trojan horse should be introduced among us. The negro, said Mr. Chambers, will not fight. All history shows this. Mr. Simpson, of South Carolina (sotto voce)--The Yankees make them fight. Mr. Lester, of Georgia--Not much. Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky--Fill them with whiskey, and they will fight. It is not denied that the negro will fight, but will he fight well enough to resist <
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 146
the system of negro conscription has been adopted by the United States government, he now remains with us, true to the instinct of his race. It is not slavery he desires to avoid, it is work in any form, but especially work in the form of dangerous service. This government possesses all the war-power originally possessed by all the people of the several States. With wise design they have delegated the whole, with little or no reservation. It is not too much to say that not the Czar of Russia, not even Peter the Great, whose despotism was restrained by no traditions and alarmed by no fears, could have brought into the field so promptly and thoroughly the entire war power of that despotism as this government has elicited the war power of the several States in defence of the rights of the States. For this purpose the first gun at Fort Sumter summoned them to arms; they will again fly to arms in the same sacred cause, whenever and by whomever menaced. When the last man shall have
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 146
cooperation of all classes of our population not in the field, will continue a sufficient guarantee of the rights of the States and the independence of the Confederate States. The following is Mr. Swann's resolution: Resolved, That in the judgment of this House no exigency now exists, nor is likely to occur, in the military affairs of the Confederate States, to justify the placing of negro slaves in the army as soldiers in the field. The resolution offered by Mr. Foote embraces a series of propositions. The propositions assert that a general levy of the slaves for soldiers is unwise; that their withdrawal from labor would be inexpedient, so longad of half a million, a million and a half or two millions of free negroes in your midst. That is more than one half of the present slave population of the Confederate States. How long would slavery last under this strain? Is not your proposition Abolitionism in disguise? No, Messrs. Editors, we could not live in a country i
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 146
our line wavers, and is swept away. Mr. Chambers said he was ashamed to debate the question. All nature cries out against it. The negro race was ordained to slavery by the Almighty. Emancipation would be the destruction of our social and political system. God forbid that this Trojan horse should be introduced among us. The negro, said Mr. Chambers, will not fight. All history shows this. Mr. Simpson, of South Carolina (sotto voce)--The Yankees make them fight. Mr. Lester, of Georgia--Not much. Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky--Fill them with whiskey, and they will fight. It is not denied that the negro will fight, but will he fight well enough to resist the Yankee armies? The negro can not be made a good soldier. The law of his race is against it. Of great simplicity of disposition, tractable, prone to obedience, and highly imitative, he may be easily drilled; but, timid, averse to effort, without ambition, he has no soldierly quality. Being adapted by nature to slav
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 146
simplicity of disposition, tractable, prone to obedience, and highly imitative, he may be easily drilled; but, timid, averse to effort, without ambition, he has no soldierly quality. Being adapted by nature to slavery, as he makes the best of slaves, he must needs make the worst of soldiers. He could recollect no instance in the war of ‘76 where negro troops were used in regular organization and regular battle, except the battalion of slaves which Lord Dunmore brought into the fight near Norfolk, against the Virginia militia, and, in that affair, as we are told by the historian Botta, they acted shabbily, and saved themselves by flight. When, in 1793, the English landed on the Island of St. Domingo, they found it defended by over twenty thousand troops, chiefly mulattoes and negroes, but, with less than one thousand men, captured several important strongholds, and with less than two thousand, finally seized upon Port-au-Prince, the capital of the island. The French authorities, i
Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic) (search for this): chapter 146
re to slavery, as he makes the best of slaves, he must needs make the worst of soldiers. He could recollect no instance in the war of ‘76 where negro troops were used in regular organization and regular battle, except the battalion of slaves which Lord Dunmore brought into the fight near Norfolk, against the Virginia militia, and, in that affair, as we are told by the historian Botta, they acted shabbily, and saved themselves by flight. When, in 1793, the English landed on the Island of St. Domingo, they found it defended by over twenty thousand troops, chiefly mulattoes and negroes, but, with less than one thousand men, captured several important strongholds, and with less than two thousand, finally seized upon Port-au-Prince, the capital of the island. The French authorities, in their extremity, offered freedom to their slaves — over four hundred thousand in number — on condition of military service for the occasion, in defence of their homes, as we would say, yet only six thousa<
G. W. Marshall (search for this): chapter 146
swept away. Mr. Chambers said he was ashamed to debate the question. All nature cries out against it. The negro race was ordained to slavery by the Almighty. Emancipation would be the destruction of our social and political system. God forbid that this Trojan horse should be introduced among us. The negro, said Mr. Chambers, will not fight. All history shows this. Mr. Simpson, of South Carolina (sotto voce)--The Yankees make them fight. Mr. Lester, of Georgia--Not much. Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky--Fill them with whiskey, and they will fight. It is not denied that the negro will fight, but will he fight well enough to resist the Yankee armies? The negro can not be made a good soldier. The law of his race is against it. Of great simplicity of disposition, tractable, prone to obedience, and highly imitative, he may be easily drilled; but, timid, averse to effort, without ambition, he has no soldierly quality. Being adapted by nature to slavery, as he makes the best
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 146
itter experience of Virginia, with regard to free negroes, already been forgotten? Has that fixed subject of legislation found its solution and remedy in the wise expedient of arming and training to arms, not only her worthless free negro population, but is this class to be multiplied ten-fold by this slave-conscription? Will ignorant, brutal free negroes be rendered less ignorant, less thievish, more humane, by this training of the camp? by the campaigns of three or four years? When President Davis said: We are not fighting for slavery, but independence. he meant that the question and subject of slavery was a matter to settle among ourselves, and one that admitted of no dispute; that he intended to be independent of all foreign influences on this as on all other matters; free to own slaves if we pleased; free to lay on our taxes; free to govern ourselves. He never intended to ignore the question of slavery, or to do aught else but express the determination to be independent in t
Editors (search for this): chapter 146
olved in this struggle. Yes, and of this nationality you would deprive us, for, instead of being, as we now are, a nation of freemen, holding slaves as our property,you would make us a nation of white men, with free negroes for our equals. Messrs. Editors, if you had sought in the political body of the Confederacy for some spot at which to aim and strike one blow which should at once deprive it of life, you could not have found one more vital, or have struck with more deadly certainty, than yf or two millions of free negroes in your midst. That is more than one half of the present slave population of the Confederate States. How long would slavery last under this strain? Is not your proposition Abolitionism in disguise? No, Messrs. Editors, we could not live in a country inhabited by such a class. Either they or we must be forced to leave. Which would it be, and where and how would they go? Abraham Lincoln emancipates all he can steal. You would take and emancipate one hal
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