A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion 1861 1865
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A large and enthusiastic meeting of the evangelical denominations of Chicago sent two delegates to present a strong and pa- triotic address to the President. The Rev. William W. Patton, D. D. , and his colleague, the Rev. Dr. John Demp- ster, on the 13th of September, 1862, urged upon the President the emancipation of the slaves and the arming of the Negroes. " If we were to arm them, " said the President, " I fear that in a few weeks the arms would be in the hands of the rebels. " ' No people ...grow so rapidly in the right direction as Americans. The reverses that the Union arms had suf- * Greeley's " American Conflict, " vol. Ii. , pp. 251. 253. 90 A UISTOUY OF NEGRO TROOPS fercd, the peril that threatened the republic, had a salu- tary effect upon the public mind. Army officers in active service, wlio were more loyal to the Union than to the idea of the inviolability of slave property, could see the necessity and utility of employing Negroes as soldiers. In the extreme South the mortality among the Union troops was very great.
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