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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Tender Mercies of the Wicked. (search)
on of the negroes torn from their homes by Gen. Sherman in Mississippi: Some 3,000 slaves, of all ages and colors, reached here yesterday. It was one of the saddest spectacles witnessed for a long time in Vicksburg. The women and children were almost starved and half naked. Such a terrible picture of abject want and squalid misery can neither be imagined nor portrayed with pen. Many of the women and children were sick with fevers, brought on by the great fatigue and exposure of the long march from Meridian, Enterprise, Quitman, and other places. Will not the friends of freedom and the humane philanthropists of the North come forward at once, and with their generous hands rescue these liberated slaves from premature graves." We learn from the Boston Courier of a later date that the suffering of these poor homeless wretches continued in all its intensity. No more political capital could be made out of them, and nothing was done to help them. They were free to perish.