Off. Reds. Rebell., Series IV, Vol. VIII, p. 1110.
497
Off. Reds. Rebell., Series IV, Vol. VIII, p. 1013.
498
Williams, Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, Journals of Congress, Vol. IV, pp. 572-573.
In the American Historical Review, January, 1913, N.W. Stephenson has an article upon "The Question of Arming the Slaves." The article is concerned particularly with the debate in the Confederate Congress upon this perplexing question and with the psychology of the statements made by President Davis, Secretary Benjamin, General Lee and by various Congressmen. The author has searched the Journals of the Confederate Congress, newspaper files and personal recollections and gives conclusions which show that "the subject was discussed during the last winter of the Confederate regime," and by inference the dissertation shows that the fear of the consequences of arming the slaves was alike in the minds of all southern people. The treatise is a study in historical psychology; and, as in similar works by men of the type of the author, the point of view of the South and of the Confederacy is presented and the Negro and his actual employment as a soldier is neglected. The author contends that a few southern leaders attempted to force the arming of the blacks upon an unwilling southern public. He neglects the evidence contained in the action of local authorities in arming the Negroes who were free and their attitude concerning those who were slaves. He neglects also the sentiment of southern leaders who favored the measure. The Journals of the Confederate Congress, therefore, will be more valuable to those desiring information concerning the debates on this question.
499
Journal of Congress of Confederate States, Vol. IV, p. 528 and Vol. VII, p. 595; Jones, Diary, Vol. II, p. 431.
500
Richmond Dispatch, February 24, 1865; Jones Diary, Vol. II, p. 432.
501
Journal of Congress of Confederate States, Vol. VII, p. 748.
502
Richmond Examiner, December 9, 1864—Gov. Smith's Message. Jones, Diary, Vol. II, p. 43; pp. 432-433. Schwab, The Confederate States of America, p. 194.
503
Off. Reds. Rebell., Series IV, Vol. III, p. 1161.
Ibid., Series III, Vol. V, pp. 711-712; Davis, Confederate Government, Vol. II, p. 660.
504
Rhodes, History of U. S., Vol. V, 1864-1865, p. 81.
505
Off. Reds. Rebell., Series IV, Vol. III, pp. 1193-1194 and Appendix.
506
Cf. Southern Correspondence throughout the Rebellion Records.
507
Compendium, U. S. Census (1870), pp. 13-15.
508
The Nashville American, "City of Nashville" booklet, p. 20.
509
Garrett and Goodpasture, History of Tennessee, pp. 249 sqq.
510
Ibid., pp. 245-246.
511
Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1843.
512
Ibid., p. 300.
513
See paper of E. E. Hoss, Tenn. Hist. Soc., Nashville.
514
Greely, Horace, The American Conflict, p. 79, New York, 1864.
515
Journal of The Constitutional Convention, State of Tennessee, 1834.
516
Journal of Constitutional Convention, 1834.
517
Haywood and Cobb, Statute Laws of Tenn., 1779, Ch. 5.
518
Ibid., 1741, Ch. 21.
519
Ibid., 1788, Ch. 7.
520