sluggish to show any signs of revolt in places remote from
the presence of the federal armies: but on some points where
the federals have been able to maintain themselves in force
in the midst of a large negro population, the process of
enrolling and arming black regiments has been carried on in
a manner which must give a new character to the war. It is
in the State of Louisiana, and under the command of General
Banks, that this use of negro soldiers has been most
extensive. The great city of New Orleans having fallen into
the possession of the federals more than a year ago, and the
neighboring country being to a certain degree abandoned by
the white population, a vast number of negroes have been
thrown on the hands of the General in command to support
and, if he can, make use of. The arming of these was begun
by General Butler, and it has been continued by his
successor. Though the number actually under arms is no doubt
exaggerated by Northern writers, yet enough have been
brought into service to produce a powerful effect on the
imaginations of the combatants, and, as we can now clearly
see, to add almost grievously to the fury of the struggle.

"Of all wars, those between races which had been accustomed
to stand to each other in the relation of master and slave
have been so much the most horrible that by general consent
the exciting of a servile insurrection has been considered
as beyond the pale of legitimate warfare. This had been held
even in the case of European serfdom, although there the
rulers and the ruled are of the same blood, religion and
language. But the conflict between the white men and the
negro, _and particularly the American white man and the
American negro, is likely to be more ruthless than any which
the ancient world, fruitful in such histories, or the modern
records of Algeria can furnish_. There was reason to hope
that the deeds of 1857 in India would not be paralleled in
our time or in any after age. The Asiatic savagery rose upon
a dominant race scattered throughout the land, and wreaked
its vengeance upon it by atrocities which it would be a
relief to forget. But it has been reserved for the New
World to present the spectacle of civil war, calling servile
war to its aid, and of men of English race and