The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War Power eBook
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go on undisturbed in their usual labors. In the
North, the case is different; the men who join the
army of subjugation are the laborers, the producers,
and the factory operatives. Nearly every man from
that section, especially those from the rural districts,
leaves some branch of industry to suffer during his
absence. The institution of slavery in the South
alone enables her to place in the field a force much
larger in proportion to her white population than the
North, or indeed any country which is dependent entirely
on free labor. The institution is a tower of
strength to the South, particularly at the present
crisis, and our enemies will be likely to find that
the “moral cancer,” about which their
orators are so fond of prating, is really one of the
most effective weapons employed against the Union
by the South. Whatever number of men may be needed
for this war, we are confident our people stand ready
to furnish. We are all enlisted for the war,
and there must be no holding back until the independence
of the South is fully acknowledged.—Montgomery
(Ala.) Adv.
A NOVEL SIGHT.
A procession of several hundred stout negro men, members
of the “domestic institution,” marched
through our streets yesterday in military order, under
the command of Confederate officers. They were
well armed and equipped with shovels, axes, blankets,
&c. A merrier set never were seen. They
were brimful of patriotism, shouting for Jeff.
Davis and singing war songs, and each looked as if
he only wanted the privilege of shooting an Abolitionist.
An Abolitionist could not have looked upon this body
of colored recruits for the Southern army without
strongly suspecting that his intense sympathy for
the “poor slave” was not appreciated, that
it was wasted on an ungrateful subject.
The arms of these colored warriors were rather mysterious.
Could it be that those gleaming axes were intended
to drive into the thick skulls of the Abolitionists
the truth, to which they are wilfully blind, that
their interference in behalf of Southern slaves is
neither appreciated nor desired; or that those shovels
were intended to dig trenches for the interment of
their carcasses? It may be that the shovels are
to be used in digging ditches, throwing up breastworks,
or the construction of masked batteries, those abominations
to every abolition Paul Pry who is so unlucky as to
stumble upon them.—Memphis Avalanche, Sept.
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