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The negro question in the Yankee Congress.the South Carolina Contrabands."
In the Yankee House of Representatives, on the 14th of May, the appropriation bill being under consideration, Mr Calvert, of Md., offered the following:
"Provided that no portion of the appropriation in this bill shall be applied to keeping, supporting, or equipping negroes or fugitive slaves for service in the Army of the United States."
Mr. Wickliffe offered an amendment, as follows:
"Nor shall they employ or enlist in the service of the United States slaves or runaway negroes"
I offer this amendment for the purpose of eliciting information with reference to a subject upon which I addressed the War Department, but received no answer.
I want a disclosure made with reference to certain facts, of which I am myself perfectly satisfied.
I have information, direct from Port Royal, that the slaves who have been taken mostly all desire to return to their masters, and are prohibited fro
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], The proclamation of a bully. (search)
The War of rapine.
The war waged by the Northern hordes against the South is one of rapine.
No war ever waged by savages was more completely one of robbery and spoliation.
There is a general appropriation by the soldiery in the pay of Lincoln of everything moveable that comes in their way. Under the protection of the Federal army, the neighboring populations of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and some of the viler sort of Unionists from the western counties of Maryland, have made incursions into the border counties of Virginia for thieving purposes, and borne off every description of valuable thing they could conveniently carry across the border.
No such war has ever been waged in modern times.
Our people are everywhere robbed and despoiled of their private property.
There is no redress.
Generals and Colonels are deaf to remonstrances, and at best make only a promise, that is never redeemed, that they will see that restitution is made.
Even they themselves are in some localities gu