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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring, 1861. (search)
ion to the cause of the South. Gen. August, of your city, after spending a few days here, has gone on to Baltimore. Hamlin has certainly negro blood in his veins. I have seen a letter from a gentleman of high character in New Hampshire, giving the pedigree of Hamlin. His grandfather was a mulatto, and commanded a mixed company of negroes and Indians during the Revolution. He pocketed the pay of his company, sold the wine and other luxuries provided for the sick, and left the army in disgrace. One of Hamlin's uncles, or great uncles, was named Africa. There is a legend in the family to the effect that when Hannibal was an infant, in the cradle, his nurse overheard one of the relatives, who was the a gazing at the baby, exclaim, "Fy, exclaim, "For God's sake! will this d — d black blood never get out of the veins of our family." Members of Congress who served with Hamlin, when he was in the House, say they always knew he had a streak of negro in him. This is pleasant. Zed.