300,000 More

Title

300,000 More

Subject

Black race

Description

Says the editor: "We never had any great faith in the fighting qualities of the negroes, but believe the slaves will fight for the rebels, against 'freedom,' with all the efficiency and zeal they are capable of exercising. But time will settle this question; and we think it will settle the question also that the negro is not the equal of the white as a warrior, as he is not his equal in other respects."

Abstract

Comment by an editor of this Democratic paper on a report that the Confederates plan to enlist 300,000 slaves into their army. In March 1865, the Confederacy was driven to this extreme measure of bringing - or trying to bring - slaves into the rebel army.

The significance of this article is the Walla Walla Statesman's clear racial conviction, that blacks will not equal whites as fighters, just as they will not equal them in any other way.

Creator

unknown, probably the editor

Source

Walla Walla Statesman

Publisher

Walla Walla, WA:R.R. & S.G. Rees

Date Issued

1865-03-17

Medium

Web

Type

article

Identifier

www.sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers_detail.aspx

Bibliographic Citation

Vol. 4, No. 14, p. 2, col. B

Temporal Coverage

1865

Provenance

Washington State Archives

Start Page

2

End Page

2

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