Letter From the Hon. Edward Stanly : His Reasons for Supporting Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan
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The Abolitionist is "brother" to the colored man, but wben asked to give liim a home, a shelter from the danger of servitude and the storms of life, he imme- diately answers, I am not "my brother's keeper." "Well may the people of the free States decline to receive them. If they could live, prosper and increase, the tide of immigration from Germany and Ireland would cease that flow, which so long has added strength and power to our great country. Slavery kept immigrants away from the South — th...ey will not be tempted to come where labor is cheapened and degraded by an ignorant, . uneducated race. If they could not live and prosper, alms houses would be as plentiful as private resi- dences. By forcing negroes in the army, our Government had done them great injustice. We have no right to make them soldiers unless we can secure them the rights of prisoners of war. This we have been unable to do. Our attempt to do so has stopped exchanges, and while it has not benefitted the negroes, it has produced incalculable suffering to our un- fortunate countrymen who were taken prisoners by rebel forces.
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