language so
envenomed against each other that one party places arms in
the hands of the half savage negro, and the other acts as if
resolved to give no quarter to the insurgent race or the
white man who commands them or fights by their side. In the
valley of the Mississippi, where these negro soldiers are in
actual service, it seems likely that a story as revolting as
that of St. Domingo is being prepared for the world. No one
who reads the description of the fighting at Port Hudson,
and the accounts given by the papers of scenes at other
places, can help fearing that the worst part of this war has
yet to come, and that a people who lately boasted that they
took the lead in education and material civilization are now
carrying on a contest without regard to any law of
conventional warfare,--one side training negroes to fight
against its own white flesh and blood, the other
slaughtering them without mercy whenever they find them in
the field.

" * * * It is pitiable to find these unhappy Africans, whose
clumsy frames are no match for the sinewy and agile white
American, thus led on to be destroyed by a merciless enemy.
Should the war proceed in this manner, it is possible that
the massacre of Africans may not be confined to actual
conflict in the field. Hitherto the whites have been
sufficiently confident in the negroes to leave them
unmolested, even when the enemy was near; but with two or
three black regiments in each federal corps, and such events
as the Port Hudson massacre occuring to infuriate the minds
on either side, who can foresee what three months more of
war may bring forth?

"All that we can say with certainty is that the unhappy
negro will be the chief sufferer in this unequal conflict.
An even greater calamity, however, is the brutalization of
two antagonistic peoples by the introduction into the war of
these servile allies of the federals. Already there are
military murders and executions on both sides. The horrors
which Europe has foreseen for a year past are now upon us.
Reprisal will provoke reprisal, until all men's natures are
hardened, and the land flows with blood."

The article is truly instructive to the present generation; its
malignity and misrepresentation of the Administration's intentions in
regard