The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Black Sailors.

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Black Sailors.

Our readers are probably not aware that runaway negroes are employed in large numbers to man the Yankee gunboats, and act as marines.--Yet such, we learn, is the fact. A gentleman, who was lately in Westmoreland and the adjoining counties, tells us that it is a very common practice to send boats crews of darkies on shore to maraud upon farmers. He adds, that they invariably behave much better than the Yankees, and seldom take more than is wanted for subsistence. We should have expected this. The negro is, naturally much more of a gentleman than the Yankee, and, unless where corrupted by intercourse with him, will in general behave with propriety. The commixture of the two races will greatly improve the Yankees, and in this sense it is well in them to encourage it. They want examples of good manners to teach them.

The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 30, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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