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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee view of the question of putting Negroes in the army. (search)
ose the South puts three hundred thousand negro troops in the field, and more than neutralize the military power of his two hundred thousand? Why, then, according to his own premises, it will be impossible to put down the rebellion.--No wonder the prospect of the South calling on her slaves strikes him with consternation. The experience of this war has pretty well dissipated the false idea, inculcated in the minds of Northern people by the teaching of abolitionism — fanaticism — that Nat Turner embodied the representative characteristics of the Southern slaves; yet there are many now in the Northern States who, though compelled to admit, with evident disappointment and disgust, that they have modified their views upon the subject, still believe the natural instinct of the slave is hatred toward his master, and therefore deride the idea that any considerable number of the servile race can be induced to take up arms in support of the South. Experience alone must teach these skept