. The Civil War : the national view . Colored Infantry at Fort Drum corps at Bealton, Virginia. THE THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR 349 sympathy and Interest in the war were mainly employed withthe negro, and would cease on his liberation. These arguments were not without weight. Yet thereply to them was scarcely less in volume and power. Itwas said that the measure would be virtually to stake suc-cess in the war on the capacity and fidelity of negro troops,of which the South had no assurance; that they would de-sert at every opportunity; that the white soldiers of theSouth would never bear as
. The Civil War : the national view . Colored Infantry at Fort Drum corps at Bealton, Virginia. THE THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR 349 sympathy and Interest in the war were mainly employed withthe negro, and would cease on his liberation. These arguments were not without weight. Yet thereply to them was scarcely less in volume and power. Itwas said that the measure would be virtually to stake suc-cess in the war on the capacity and fidelity of negro troops,of which the South had no assurance; that they would de-sert at every opportunity; that the white soldiers of theSouth would never bear association wnth them, and thattheir introduction into the army would be the signal of dis-affection and mutiny; that the proposed liberation of slavesbecoming soldiers was to give up the most important of theobjects of the war, and to abandon every ground assumedat its commencement; that it would be a fatal confession ofweakness to the enemy, and that it would be a resort to alow and dishonorable alliance far more shameful than thatof which the North had been guilty in
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