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Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal. BY JAS. W* STANFORD. “Independent in All Things—Neutral in Nothing/’ .^2* TERMS $1.00 IN ADVANCE; . ■ vol* viii. sses te^‘ a,, “ sh#d s f *«««**» >«*»• CUTHBERT, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1888. -NO. 25 GREAT REDUCTIONS! BARGAINS! GREAT REDUCTIONS ! HilRRin DRY HOMS HftllSI! Our entire Stock of Spring and Summer Goods at actual cost. Dress Goods and White Goods of every description, Embroideries, Embroidered Flonncings, Kid Gloves and Silk Trimmings, such as Moires and Surah Silks, to mnke room for ouf Mammoth (Stock of Fall Goods. Owing to the stringency of money, many large manufacturers had to close within the last week, and Haiums’ Dry Goons House will be represented there to take advantage of the many bargains bought strictly for cash. A <0 <G> ‘A? t A *2? C €3> S 7 2 2 * You know* what that means without a word from us. Such a reduction never was known in Cuthbert as will be made on all Goods in our line. Such an opportunity never was ofteiTd to cash purchasers. An honest slaughter of honest Goods, reduced only to enable us to get more cash oil hand to be able to take advantage of the many bargains offered in the East for the fall trade. Dry Goods at almost half their former price. Harris’ Dry Goods House’s reputation for correct statements has been made too long to be talked of or questioned. Come at once and take advantage of these sales whilcTnir Stock is still complete. Him POM DRY M ROUSE. m —“fig- ■ . -i Enterprise & Appeal SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : One copy one-year « . 4 * ’ Six months ; “ Three months 11.00 . 50 . 25 ICall Uo«d Schedule* PAT J»ASSE«C.rn;OOI>U WkST. Attire 2:55 r. m. OOtMi EAST. Arrive 11:53 a. m. FLOWITIA A WESTERS PASSES*.CR. GOING WEST. Arrive : ^0 a. m. CiOIXG KAKT. Atttve . 2:11 P. m. Stops at Union Springs. Ivitaula, Cuthbert. Dawson, between Montgom ery and Smithrille. port Ctainrs train makes clo<e con- hection with the Montgomery A Macon Passsengerat Cuthbert. p. PHELPS. Air. GEX. CLEBURNE’S Kenttesaw Gazette. To the Comma uding Corps, Division, Brigade* and Jicgimcntal Commanders, of the Army of Tennessee: General:—Moved by the exi gem-y in which our country is now placed we take the liberty of \ B E, XT 2ST S W I 0 8x WESTBR.N jEL A. I IL O -A-ID. ‘TY TY ®©UT33a K On and after Sunday, May 13tl», 1888, passenger trains will run as follows: c EXT K A I. ST A X DA V-D TIM K. FOR THE WEST. NORTH A StH'Til. Ciiunn’ti Mail. Brunswick Iv 0 :55 a m Pyles’ M’sh’t?:15am Jamaica lv 7:37 a m Wnynesville lv 8:07 a tn Hoboken lv 0:02 a m Hohlatt’villc lv 0:13 a m Waycross nr 9:12 a m Savannah ur 12:23 p nt Charleston, ar 4:20 |» in Callahan ar 11 :Sr* a m .1 ack’villear 12 iOOjo 'fhouiasville ar 1:201» m Pensacola . ar 10:10 p itt Mobile ... . ar .3:20 a m New Orleans ar7:55 a m Jacksonville lv 7:30 a ill Cnllahau .. lv S :05 a nt Charleston . Iv3:00a m Savannah . lv 7 :<*» w m W ay cross... lv 10:0j> a in Peurson... - lv 11:10 a m Alnpalia .. .. lv 12:07 p m Tv Ty lv 1:3* pm Siim uer lv 1:54 pm Willingham lv 2:22 p m Davis lv 2:3(5 p m Albany ... ar .3:00 p m Montgomery —ar.. Now* Orleans — ar . Birmingham ...ar.. Decatur ...— ar . Nashville ar Louisville ar Cincinnati .. • ar... Columbus ar Macon ar .. Atlanta «r .. Marietta .. ... ar . Chattanooga ...ar. . Louisville i*r . (Cincinnati . r.r . SAVED FROM SUICIDE, PROSTRATED MIND AND BODY- A Life Saved in Savannah. “When 1 began the use of your French Wine of Coen I was prostrat'd! and bro ken down mentally and physically by excesses and over exertion, i bad teen eotiipelled to give ii;>.-i liJerative business and had be**«»me little better tliilti an Im becile j gloomy despondent, coutinindly brooding over my miserable condition, ami at times really eontemplated suicide. Six hot ties of your French Wine of Coca have restored me to perfect health and vigor, and am able to attend to a large commercial business. 1 am liappy, cheerful and O. K.” [Signed.] A h. WOOD. A Hotil! and Goca V/omaa GsYttf Proa tic ) Giayc 7/lo'Baa Despaired of Living. "I h:iv,- Iirru :i -nil for ninny ynurs.: ml lintl jrlren'iji l-opn of beiii'a ! iwliiw! to iii'iiitli i*yiiin, mnl r\j K . ( t,.|! j to,Hr at any tinit*. 1 Viniiriton's tvinrof j l 'ora \v:i. rni i: 11 ■ i r 1 1; !iVt to me aftrr alii ; other remedies liatl failed, and i eati i | truthfully say that ii lia. not only ke|.t | views in t!ic premises. i me alive, hut siren-thened and raised j n nte nji so tinit I ajrain enj ivthe lilessiii^-s J .If health, i stilVereii with a'n'at nei ve exliaitstioir. an oryaair heart disease. Witii ,'old stnkintr sjieiis. with little ]kov- j er of reaetion. and i'endierton's Wine -i I t'nea is tin- only artieletliat would briny »n a ijniek reaetion.' 1 (Siyned.! Mbs. TAMAKt.NE CARTER. .Mt.MOfflll,. , iloubt holds this thought in per | spec-live. We can see three great General, j causes operating to destroy ns. 1st. The inferiority of our ar rates to those.of the enemy in point of numbers. 2.1. The poverty of otlr single we are forced to scatter our forces j ish ottr ranks by the casualties of fortified depots, in every point where there is a slave to set free. All along tile lines slavery is comparatively ed veneration for the Union, which one of li/eir own most distinguish ed ojators (Dr. Beecher in "bis Liverpool speech) openiy avowed Ones are found I idenl only a temporary expedient j was only used as a stimulus to and are not. free to move and strike . war. and what source of repair is like the enemy; his vulnerable j there left us? We therefore see in points are carefully selected anil I the recommendations of the I’res- sonrec of supply in comparison laying before vou, unofficially, onr | * rUh ll,s scveral ROUIWS - I valut! '' 88 l " us f “ r lab,,r ' 1,ut ol views on the present slate of af ! 3J ' The facl lllat 3ll ‘ TCI 7 f ™'“ | S real a “' 1 increasing worth to the fairs. The subject is en grave and our views so new, we feel it a duty liotli to you and the cause, that before going further we should submit them for your judgment, and receive your sug gestions in regard to them. We therefore respectfully ask you to '' crs ’ ,;n ' 1 is "udvavming to make give us an expression of your! ll,e preponderance irresistible. We have • >rC8 ' , ' unt * n b ' s recent tow been fighlibg nearly three I WC * 8 *S C ’ «»J'» U»e enemy “has re I'eing one ot our chief sources of enemy for information. It is an strength at the commencement of I omnipreseul spy system, pointing the war has now become, in a mil j "Ul our valuable men to the ene itary point of view, one of our my, revealing our positions, pur chief sources of weakness. i poses, and resources, and yet act- The enemy already opposes us ! ing so safely and secretly that at every point with superior mint there is no means to guard against SUFFERING MANKIND, Go to Mu- Dflig Siort* mol buva botttleof PEMBERTON'S FRENCH WINE COCA. years, hare spilt much of our best j ccl,t E> ordered, blood, and lost, consumed, or l * on an * '“atle for volunteers, to be followed, il ineffectual, by a sliil further draft.” In addition the President 1 of the United Slates announces that “he has already iti training an army of one hundred thousand negroes as good as any troops,” sod every fresh raid lie makes and of property equal iu value to the specie currency of the world. Through some lack in our system the fruits of our struggle and sac rifices have invariably slipped away from ns and left ns nothing I but long lists of dead and man : gled, Instead of standing deli antlyon the borders ol our terri- I lory or hariassicg those ol live . enemy, we are hemmed in tn day ' into less titan two thirds of it. THylruji yiPi •®a!Ts c e^SiFS IS A LINIMENT PERFECTLY HARMLESS.AND SHOULD EE USED A F£MV MONTHS. FJCHORE. CONFiKEM.CNT SEND FOR BOOK TO MOTHERS a - :2! p m BradfiEIbTIeGlUlajor Co. ATI A KIT-A n A f FROM THIS WEST, NORTH Mail. Cincinnati lv . Louisville lv Chattanooga lv tt SOUTH. Florida Express. S:0<> p m 8:0.5 pin 8 :<*5 it m 12:5*3 p m 2:20 pm <i :50 p n*. 12:15 m Atlanta Macon Coiniqlms.. -. ...lv . ..iv —:.... ...lv Cincinnati .. lv 11 :U0 j* til l.oui*ville — ,. iv G:l.» a m Nashville ...lv 12:20 l> m Decatur • .. lv |> n» -Birmingham. ..lv 6:55 i» m New Orleans lv i :.v> a m M ontgoniery lv 10:05 pm Album* . lv 5:00 a m 11:10 p m Davis . lv 5:2.3 a m Willingham . .. lv 5 :.*>S a nt Fn inner . ..lv 6:05 r: m Ty Tv . lv 0:31 a ill Alapalia .. lv 7:55 a m 1 :42 a m | Vnreica .. .lv A:30 a m 2:47 a m \V ay cross .. . ar 9:36 a m •4:45 a iu Savannah ... .. .ar 12:2.*ip in 12 :?.t p in Charleston . • .. .ar 4:20 p m 4:20 p m Callahan . ..ar 11:2b a iu 7:10 a m Jacksonville. ar 12:00 in 8:00 a m New Orleans . . Iv 4 :00 p in Mobile ..lv 8:40 p in Pensacola - - . Iv 4 :00 a m Thomasville . ..lv 12:55 p hi Jacksonville.. .. lv 7 :.’{0 a m 0:40 p ni Callahan .,1V r, :<15 a ni Spm Charleston — .. lv .3:00 a in •* m Savannah lv 7:06 a in 0 Waveros.s . ... .lv 10:00 a m .3 m7 a in SchfattVc . lv 10:20 a ill 4:27 a m • Hoboken lv 10:41 a m 4:40 a ni Wavnesr’e — lv It :37 a m 5:32 a in Jamaica . --- lv 12:5 p m 0:03 a m PVM'sh .ivtt2:2H p m tl»:25 a m llmnswick. • ar 12;«0 p iu 0:15 a in u ATLANTA. G A. Solti by Druggists and Dealers. feblC-1 v on Purchase tickets at the station, n]nl Bare extra fare collected uj»on tb«* train. The mail train stop** at all IJ *!t W sta tions. Connections made a! Wa vcross t«> and from all points on Sitvautiah, Florida & Western Railway. Pullman Palace sleeping amt Mann Boudoir Cars. M. S. HAINES, GEO; \V. HAINM, Gen’l Manager. Sui»erinteinl*Tit. 0. D. OWEN?, J. A. Mt.DUFFIE, Traffic Mmunrcr. Ucti’l Pass. Agent. F. \V. ANUIKK. Ass’t Otjn’l Pass. Agt. s. s. s. ■ Only $1.75. at J. VT. StAtnimn’s. DR WESTMORELAND, Dli.yl'IST, Offers his services to tlie public in all the branches of Dentistry.—- Work warranted. Olfiee over the Postnllice. Booms formerly oeeu pied by Dr. Worsham. rnarSl et W. R. THORNTON, DENTIST. CUTHBERT, GA. O FFIGE West Side Public Square, over 14. K. Kv.v’s .Store. feb!7-ly : i**ew slice of territory lie wrests from us will add to this force*, i Every soldier in our army already j knows a lid feels our numerical in- i Icriority u> tiie encm^-. Want ol an.l still the enemy menacingly | men in lhe ficltl 1)33 P revcnlcd i him from reaping the fruits of his it. Even in the heart of our country, where our hold upon this secret espionage is firmest, il wails but the opening fire of the a large couscrip- enemy's battle or.ttjAi wake it like a subsequent call | a torpid serpent into venomous activity. In view of the stale of affairs, what dots our country propose to do? In the words of President Davis “no effort must be spared to add . largely to our effective force as promptly as possible. The souices of supply are to be found in restoring to the army ail who are improperty absent, put ting an end to substitution, moil- j the ne ify ing the exemption law, restrict ing details, and placing in the ranks sut-h of the able bodied I which at the best will leave us, 12 stir up the anti slavery crusade, months hence, in the same predie-1 ami lastly the poisonous ami self ament wc are in now. The Pres-1 ish interests which arc the fun ulent attempts to^meet only one ofjgns growth of the war itself. Mhb the depressing causes mentioned; I kind may fancy it a great duty to for the other tttolie has pro|msed filcstroy slavery, but what interest no remctl)'. They remain to gen-! can mankind have in upholding crate lack of confidence in our fi ] this remainder of the northern nal success and to keep us mov-j war platform? Their interests and ing down hill ns heretofore. Adc-! feeling will be diametrically op- quately to meet the causes which are now threatening ruin to our country, we propose, in addition to a mollification of the Presi posed to it. The measure we pro l»ose will strike dead all John Brown fanaticism and will com- pel the enemy to draw off altogeth- ilent’s plans, that we retain in \ cr, or in the eves of the world to service for the war all troops now ! swallow the Declaration of Inile confronts us at every point with 1 “ UUJ " r * , l ,, “S * ru,ls men now employed as wagoners, superior roues. Our soldiers can v,clorlcs 1111,1 llas prevented him | nurses, cooks, and other employes see no end to this state or affairs ] fronl llav,n S tllC furlough he ex j as are doing service for which the except in our own exhaustion; |,eclea afler ll,e ,asl reorganiza-; negr.^s may be round competent.” hence, instead of rising to the oc ! l!on ’ aBl1 , ' ilon lie turns front the j Most of the then improperly ab- caston, they arc sinking into a la- j lra ' lin = ari,lit ' s ,n lhe r,cl<1 to look ^ sent, together with many of the ltd apathy, growing weary of hard , al the source of supply, he finds exempts anil men having snbsli shifts and slaughters which prom aolllin = ia tlle prospect to encour-; lutes, are now without tiie Con- ise ur> rrstilts. la this state „t : ' se lliu! ' | federate lines, and cannot be cal- things it is easy to umleistand ° ur R ‘ n 3 lc source of supply is ciliated on. If all the exempts why there is a growing belief that lIlal l )orli,m ol our white men lit j capable of bearing arms were en- some black catastrophe is not far j b ’ r l!u, - v an<l not Dl,w In llle ranks, j rolled, it will give us the boys bc- altead of us* a ml that unless some extraordinary change is soon made in our condition wc must overtake it. The consequences ol this condition arc showing them selves more plainly every day, restlessness of morals spreading everywhere, manifesting ilsell in the army in a growing disregard for private tights, desertion spreading to a class of soldiers U never dared to tamper with before, military commissions sinking in the estimation of the soldier, out snpplies failing, our finances iu ruins. If this stale continues much longer we must be subjuga ted. Every man should endeavor to understand themcaniDgof sub jngation before it is ton late. We can give but a faint idea when wc say it means the loss of all we i now hold most sacred, slaves and Ilusrurpdth0Tyo;Ttcar-t3ofro»igh,V>’*w»ltl.tings.Ai.lh ’ , inrtiv:<'stien. Iuwtud Fain*. ExtiaUi-tio;*. Inv^ltiAbl? Jill Ollier personal prOport-V. lands Kfcctimattfm, FemaTo TVaakiH***, and sP prUnd an*l 1 I r .»» owera of ttesio.uicUAi;d Bowels, a*, at Drucs . homesteads, liberty, justice, safe ty, pride, manhood. It ineans i he enemy has three sources ol j low eighteen, the men above forty supply, first, his own motley pop ! five, and those persons who arc uiation; secondly, o»r slaves} and ■ left at home to meet the wants of thirdly, Europeans whose hearts the country and the army; but are fired into a crusade against us , this modification of the exemption l»y fictitious pictures of the alroc i law will remove from the fields ities of slavery, and who meet no i and manufactories most of Lhe hindrance from their governments Skill that directed agricultural ^ £0NSWPT!V HINDER CORNS. surest and best etirt> for Comp, Bnnionc Easr.tvs coi.-irjrl to the Xcrerj apr!2-1y Jno. D. Gunn, UNDERTAKER, Cuthbert, Georgia. Your attention is called to the tact that I am prepared to furnish, daj' or night, any style or size Coffin, Burial Case or Casket desired. I keep always in stock full assortments In Stiffen anil Sixes. Ami i‘:m furnish Collin, .is tastily trim med. and at Prices as low as can be bon-iit in the state. Will send Hearse to any part of tiie county by contract. When you need me, cnmeiosce me. £0- l an !«• found, at nigbt, at resi deuce, opposite Methodist Church, on bumpkin street. feb4-ct in such Alcrprise, because these governments are equally antagon islie to the institution. In touching the 3d cause, the laet that slavery has become a military weakness, we may rouse prejudice and passion, but the time has come when it would be madness not to look at our danger from every point of view and to probe it to the bottom. Apart from the assistance that home and foreign prejudice against slavery has given to the north, slavery is a source of great strength to the enemy, in a purely military point of view, by supply ing him with an army from onr granaries; but il is our most vul- in service, and that we immedi ately commence training a large reserve of the most courageous of our slaves, and further, that we guarantee freedom within a rea sonabie time to every slave in the south who shall remain true to the Confederacy in Ibis war. As between the loss of inile pendcncc and the loss of slavery, wc assume that every patriot will freely give up the latter, give up ro slave rather than be a slave himself. If we tire correct in Ibis assumption it only re mains to show bow this great na tional sacrifice is, in all human probabilities, to change the cur rent of success and sweep the in vader from our country. Our country 1ms already some friends in England and France, and there arc strong motives to once removed the sy-mpathy and and mechanical labor, and, as slat the interests of these and other pendcncc without tiie sauce and disguise of philanthropy. This delusion of fanaticism at an end thousands of northern people will have leisure to look at home and to see the gulf of despotism into which they themselves are rush ing. The measure will at one blow- strip the enemy of foreign sympn thy and assistance, and transfer them to the south; it «iil dry up two of bis three sources ol re criming; it will take from his negro army the only motive il could have to Gght against the south, and will probably cause much of it to desert over to us; it will deprive It is cause of the powerful stimulus of fanaticism and will enable him tn sec the rock i n which bis so called friends are now piloting linn. The tin- induce these nations to recognize J mediate effect of the emancipation and assist us, but they cannot as- j and enrollment of negroes on the sist us without helping slavery, I military strength of the south and to do so this would be in con- j would be: To eiftble its to have flict with their policy for the last armies numerically snpeiior to those of the noi ill, ahd a reserve of any size we might think neccs- essnry: To enable us to take the offensive, move forward, and for- age on the enemy. It would open to us in prnsjieclive another and almost untouched source of sup ply, and furnish us with the quarter of a century. England has paid hundreds of millions to emancipate her West India slaves and break up tiie slave trade. Could she now consistently spend her treasure to reinstate slavery in tins country? But tins barrier that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the nerablc point, a continual embar enemy, thnt our youth will be trained by northern school teach- ers, will learn Irom northern school books their version of the ed by the President, “details will have to be made to meet the wants of the country,” thus send ing many of the men to be deriv ed from this source back to their homes again. Independently of this, experience proves that strip lings and men above conscript age break down and swill the sick lists more than they do the ranks. The portion now in our lines of the class who have substitutes is not on the whole a hopeful cle ment, for the motives that created it must have been stronger than patriotism and these motives ad ded to what many of them call breach of faith will cause some tn lie not forthcoming and others to nations will accord '.villi our own, means of preventing temporary disaslcr and carrying on a pro and we may expect from them j traded struggle. It would in- both moral support and material stantly remove ail the vuluerabili- war, will be impressed by all the influences of history and educa tion to regard onr gallant dead as traitors, our maimed veterans as fit objects for derison. Il means thecrushmgof southern manhood, the hatred of oilr former slaves, who will on a spy system be our secret {mlice. The conqueror's policy is to divide the conquered into factions and stir up animus! ty among them, and in training rassraent and in some rcs’pects an be unwilling and discontented insidious weakness. Wherever soldiers. The remaining sources slavery is once seriously disturb mentioned by the President have ed, whether by the actual presence been so closely pruned in the Army or the approach of the enemy, or of Tennessee that they will be even by a cavalry raid, the whites can no longcr-with safety to their property openly sympathize with ou- cause. The fear of their slaves is continually haunting them, aud from silence and ap prehension many of these soon learn to wish the war sloped on any terms; the next stage is to take the oath to save property, and they become dead tn us if not an army of negroes the north no opeu enemies. To prevent raids found not to yield largely. The supply from all these sources, to- gether with what we now have in the field, will exhaust the while race, and though it should greatly exceed expectations aud put us on an equality with the enemy, or even give us temporary advan tages, still we have no reserve to meet unexpected disaster or to supply a protrac-dftl struggle. Like past years 1SG4 will diuiin aid. One thing is certain, as soon as tiie great sacrifice to indepen dence is made ahd known in for eign countries there will be acorn plele change of front in our favor of the sympathies of the world. This measure will deprive the north of the moral and material aid which it now derives from the hitler prejudices with which for- eigners view the institution, and its war if continued will hence forth be so despicable in their eyes ty, embarrassment, and inherent weakness which result from slave ry. The approach ol the enemy would no longer find every house hold surrounded by spies; the fear that scaled the master's lips and the avarice that has, in so many cases, tempted him practi cally to desert us would alike be removed. There would be no re emits awaiting the enemy with open arms, no complete history ol every neighborhood with ready that tins source of recruiting will; guides, no fear of insurrection in be dried np. It will leave the enemy's negro army no motive to fight for, and will exhaust the source from which it has been re cruiletl. The idea that it is their special mission to war against slavery lias held growing sway over the northern people for many years, and has at length ripened into an armed and bloody crusade against it. This baleful superstition has so far supplied them with a cour age and constancy not their own the rear or anxieties for the fate of loved ones when our armies moved forward. The chronic ir ritation of hope deferred would be joyfully ended with the negro, and the sympathies of his whole^ce would be due to his native south. It would restore confidence in an early termination of the war with all its inspiring consequences, anil even, if contrary to all expcc talions, the enemy should succeed in overrnning the south, instead of finding a cheap, ready made It is the most powerful and lion Lili ans of huliling ildown he would est^ entertained plank in their find a common hatred 'and thirst war platform. Knock this away for vengeance which would break and what is left? A bloody antbi into acts at every favorable op tion for more territory, a pretend porlunity, would prevent him from settling on our lands, and render the south a very unprofitable con quest. It Would remove forever all selfish taint from our cause anil place independence above eve ry question of property. The Tery magnitude of tbe sacrifice itself, such as no nation has ever voluntarily made before, would appall our enemy, destroy his spirit and his finances, and fill our hearts with a pride anil sin gleness of purpose which would clothe us with new strength in battle. Apart from all oilier aspects of the question, the necessity for i more fighting men is upon us. Wc j can only get a.snfficiency by mak ing the negro share the danger j and hardships of the war. If we ; arm anil train him, ami make him fight for the country in her hour of dire distress, every considera tion of principle and policy de mands that wc should set him ami his whole race who side with us free. It is a first principle with mankind that he who offers life iD defense of the state should receive from her in return his freedom aud his happiness; aud wc believe, i in acknowledgement of this prin jciple, the constitution of the j southern states has reserved to | their respective governments the ‘ power to free slaves for merilo- ‘ rious services to the slate. It is 1 politic besides. For many years 1 ever since the agitation of the i subject of slavery commenced, the i negro has been dreaming of free 1 dom, and his vivid imagination 1 has surrounded that condition with so many gratifications that it has become tiie paradise of his j hopes. To attain it he will at- ' tempt dangers aud difficulties not exceeded by the bravest soldier in the field. The hope of freedom is perhaps the only moral incentive that can be applied to him in his present condition. It would be preposterous then to expect him to fight against it with any de gree of enthusiasm, therefore wc must bind him to our cause by no doubtful bonds, we must leave no possible loop hole for treachery to creep in. The slaves are danger ■ ous now; but arttied. trained, and I collected in an army they would | be a thousand fold more danger ous, therefore when we make sol diers of them, we must make free men of them beyond all question, and thus enlist their sympathies also. We cm do this more effect ually than the north can now do, for we can give the negro not only his own fremlom, but that of his wife and child, and secure it to him in his old home. To do this we must immediately make his marriage and parental relations sacred in the eyes of the law, and forbid their sale. The past legis lation of the south concedes that a large tree middle class of negro blood, between the master and slave, must sooner or later destroy the institution. If, then, we toneh the institution at all, we would do best to make the most of il, and by emancipating the whole race upon reasonable terms and within such reasonable time as will pre pare both races for the change, sc cure to ourselves all the advan tages, and to our enemies all the disadvantages that can arise, both at home and abroad, from sucli a sacrifice. Satisfy the negro that if be faithfully adheres to our standard during the war he shall receive his freedom and that or his race, give him us an earnest of our in tentions, such immediate immuni ties as will impress him with our sincerity and be in keeping with his new condition, enroll a portion of his class as soldiers of the Con federacy, and urc change the racS from a dreaded weakness to a po sition of strength. Will the slaves fight? The he lots of Sparta stood their master* good stcatl in battle. Id the great sea fight ot Lepanta where the Christians checked forever the spread of Mohammedanism over Europe, the galley slaves of por tions of the fleet were promise'! freedom and called on to fight at a' critical moment of the battle. They fought well, and civilization owes much to those brave galley slaves. The negro slaves of St: Domingo, fighting for freedom tie 1 I’tated their white masters and j tin: French troops sent against ; them. The negro slaves of Jamai- I ea revolted and, under the namd | of maroons, held the mountains | against their masters fora bun- i died and fifty years, and the ex- : pcricnce of this war has been, SO far, that half trained negrqcahave fought as bravely as many other half trained Yankees. If, eoit- trary to the training of a life time they can be made to face and fight bravely against their former mas ters. how much more probable Is it that with tbe allurement of A higher reward and led by those masters, they would submit td discipline and face dangers. We will briefly notice a few ar guments against this course. It is said republicanism cannot exist without the institution. Even were this true we prefer any iortn of govern merit of which the southern people may have the moulding to uni: forced upon Us by a conqueror. It is said that -while men can not perform agricultural labor ill the south. The experience of this army during the heat or strtumer from Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Tupelo, Mississippi, is that the white man is healthier when doing reasonable work in the open field than al any other time. Il ia said an army of negroes cannot be spared from tbe fields. A sufficient number of slaws Is now ministering to luxury alone to supply the place «f all we need, anil we believe it would be better to take the half able bodied meil off the plantation than to take tbe one master mind that economical ly regulated Its operations. Leave some of the skill at home afitl take some of the musele to fight with. It is sai<l that slaves will not work after they are freed. We think necessity and a wise legists tion will compel them to labor for a living. It is said il will cause terrible excitement and some disaffection from our cause. Excitement is far preferable to the apathy which now exists, and disaffection will not be among tbe lighting men. Il'is said slavery is all we are fighting for. and if we give it op we give op all. Even if this were true, which wc ileBV, slavery is not all our enemies arc fighting for. It is merely the pretense la establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of govern ment, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties. We have now briefly proposed A plan which we believe will save our country. It may be imper fect, but in all human probability it would give us our independ ence. No objection ought to out weigh it which is not weightier than independence. It is worthy ofbeing put in practice, it ought to be mooted quickly before the people, and urged earnestly by er* cry man who believes in its effica cy. Negroes will require much training, training wilt require time and there is danger that tbit Con cession to common sense m*f come loo late. P. K. Ci.FiiuuNE, Major General Commanding Division.