[Controlcambios-list] appetite for more after conclud

Mon Aug 31 18:06:36 CEST 2009

>From the old habit of appealing to the master against the overseer. Kind
words would cost the master nothing, and he could easily put off any
non-fulfilment upon the overseer. Moreover, the negroes have acquired
such constitutional distrust of white people, that it is perhaps as much
as they can do to trust more than one person at a time. Meanwhile this
constant personal intercourse is out of the question in a well-ordered
regiment; and the remedy for it is to introduce by degrees more and more
of system, so that their immediate officers will become all-sufficient
for the daily routine. It is perfectly true (as I find everybody takes
for granted) that the first essential for an officer of colored troops
is to gain their confidence. But it is equally true, though many persons
do not appreciate it, that the admirable methods and proprieties of the
regular army are equally available for all troops, and that the
sublimest philanthropist, if he does not appreciate this, is unfit to
command them. Another childlike attribute in these men, which is less
agreeable, is a sort of blunt insensibility to giving physical pain. If
they are cruel to animals, for instance, it al
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